Re: Ada last place in programming language census

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srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:

> 
>    As part of the research for my recent proposal that the Ada community
>
....... stuff deleted
 
>    Here are the results for the August 1992 survey:
> 
>                         Cobol          405,325
>                         Basic          332,786
>                         Assembler      309,163
>                         Fortran        266,912
>                         RPG II         163,443
>                         Pascal         162,391
>                         C              160,295
>                         SQL            154,814
>                         SAS            147,365
>                         PL/1           114,340
>                         C++             71,448
>                         RPG II          69,529
>                         APL             18,185
>                         Ada             10,459
> 
>    What can we conclude?  

	That C++ is 6.8312 times more used than Ada
	That Cobol is 5.673 times more used that c++
	That Cobol is therefor 6.8312*5.673 times more used than Ada
	(btw that = 38.753445 times more)

	I suppose that may be expected though as Cobol was used by
	Noah on the Ark's Ticket booking system. And C++/C is taught
	in universities