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From: Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net>
Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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On 2010-05-22, Peter C. Chapin <pcc482719@gmail.com> wrote:
> Duke Normandin wrote:
>
>> Nothing too terribly mind-boggling! ;) Just don't want to spend the time
>> learning a "soon-to-be" fossil of a language, with no where to go but in a
>> museum. Been there; done that! I'm also looking at learning Miranda - but
>> guess what? Nice, simple functional language - but zero community and
>> support. It _may_ get a second life - maybe. Meanwhile, I'm liking Ada.
>
> Ada is definitely not a fossil, nor is it likely to become a fossil in the
> near future. It's true that Ada doesn't have the tool, library, and community
> support that C++ and Java enjoys (in terms of sheer quantity at least), but
> there are definitely all three of those things available for Ada. Also the
> language has an updated standard in the works.

I'm seeing that Ada is alive and well, and still "strutting her stuff" ;)
Just had to be sure, is all....

> If you are looking at functional languages have you considered OCaml? It has a
> lively community. An alternative might be F#, Microsoft's ML-like functional
> language for .NET. It's shiny and new, and Microsoft fully supports it with
> Visual Studio 2010. It even runs on Linux/Mono. Other than that I don't know
> much about it. :)

I quit smoking Camel cigarettes 10 years ago. Whenever I  go near the OCaml
language, I get antsy for a cigarette. ;) Haskell is too much like "a
hassle". OTOH, Miranda conjures up fond memories of long ago ... ;)
-- 
Duke
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