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From: gerhard.nospam@bigfoot.de (Gerhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?=)
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Subject: Re: is ada dead?
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 02:21:11 +0200
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I hesitate to respond to such posts, but here it goes:

On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 21:56:32 GMT, tyler spivey wrote:
>is ada dead?

Not at all.

>is it only used in department of defense?

No, though defense projects are probably still the field most Ada developers
work in.

>is it easy/hard to learn?

Depends. The programming language Ada isn't harder to learn than comparable
languages. New concepts are hard to learn. If you already know the concepts,
any programming language that implements this concepts is just yet another
programming language. Such concepts would be for example:

- Object-oriented programming
- Generic programming
- Multithreaded programming
- typesafe programming

>will it die soon?

If you really are interested in Ada, you should check out the site
http://www.adapower.com/ It should answer most of your questions.

Gerhard
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