From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d61dba472206eed X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.68.MISMATCH!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Yannick_Duch=EAne_=28Hibou57=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interest in Ada is growing strong Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:43:26 +0200 Organization: Ada At Home Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: gb35rL9EZW5EtzrYN+nHvA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.53 (Win32) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11535 Date: 2010-06-09T19:43:26+02:00 List-Id: Le Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:57:01 +0200, Ludovic Brenta = a =E9crit: > The world-renowned Ada-Belgium International Spring Event once again > attracted a crowd; this year, 12 persons were present and another 2 > expressed interest but could not attend. The Beaujolais Effect was > demonstrated once again. The Debian packaging workshop attracted > unprecedented audience of 5 enthusiastic people (not including > myself), some of whom actually came prepared with questions and Debian= > already installed on their machines. > > All in all it was a very pleasant event; Lady Ada smiled upon us from > the heavens and granted us excellent weather. I look forward to next > time. > > There were 10 people present last year, 2 of whom also attended the > Debian packaging workshop. So, the interest in Ada grew 20% year over > year and the interest in "Ada in Debian" grew 150% year over year. Not= > bad for a "dying" language. > > -- > Ludovic Brenta. Could not join for personal reasons. Hope this will be OK for next year = or = a later year. Cheers, and hope you all enjoyed a lot. -- = There is even better than a pragma Assert: a SPARK --# check. --# check C and WhoKnowWhat and YouKnowWho; --# assert Ada; -- i.e. forget about previous premises which leads to conclusion -- and start with new conclusion as premise.