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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cec20777e0d41ea0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-09 01:35:16 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!128.39.3.166!uninett.no!ntnu.no!randhol+abuse From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Increased Interest In Ada? Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 09:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3A82EFA2.C8756B09@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 981711315 26148 129.241.83.82 (9 Feb 2001 09:35:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 09:35:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5045 Date: 2001-02-09T09:35:15+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:12:34 -0500, Marin David Condic wrote: >This is just a perceptual observation, but it seems that C.L.A. is >enjoying an increased participation level in recent months. Does anybody >else share this perception? Has anybody looked at the statistics to know >if there has been a significant increase any time recently? > >If true, it would be a good sign. Yes it would. What would be very nice was if a lot of the students who take Ada 95 courses at the university could see that Ada 95 can also be used to make cool programs using either GtkAda or SDL or other Toolkits. I mean that one see that one can make nice GUIs with Ada too and not only the hyped Java. So that when the students that also codes as a hobby, goes home they will continue programming in Ada 95 and not revert to C/C++ or Java. I think Linux and the desktop area of Linux is a opportunity for Ada to make a "comeback". -- Preben Randhol ---------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- iMy favorite editor is Emacs!bcwVim -- vim best-editor.txt