Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sat, 22 May 2010 01:05:33 +0200, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> a  
écrit:
> 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.
It had a long live, and will have a long live again.
The goo word could be “persistent”.

It started at the end of the years 1970, first standardized in 1983,  
revised in someway, the again revised in 1995 with many additions which  
make it the first standardized OO language (while Ada does not handle OO  
the same way as others), then again revised in 2005, and the next revision  
is planned for 2012 or 2015 (I feel lost with this date... should be 2015,  
while many people are talking about 2012).

It was modern, in its early age, starting with Ada 83. It is unlikely that  
something which was ahead in 1983 and which in 1983, already embedded  
paradigms still totally unknown of most of 2010 languages, it is unlikely  
such a thing can be referred to as a “fossil”.

Don't be afraid for that. Not popular, does not implies bad (and popular  
does not implies good).

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