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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-07 17:19:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 00:19:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1002500389 19805 129.241.83.82 (8 Oct 2001 00:19:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 00:19:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13883 Date: 2001-10-08T00:19:49+00:00 List-Id: On 7 Oct 2001 19:31:02 GMT, Ralph M�ritz wrote: > I'm just starting out learning Ada, but it seems Ada is dying. From what I > can see very few people use Ada, out of about 15 000 projects on > Sourceforge only 32 are written in Ada! I think that's sad, and now that > Ada's parents (the U.S DoD) are dropping Ada 95 what does the future hold > in store? Is it worthwhile learning a language nobody appreciates or uses? > I don't think it is stupid to learn Ada, even if there are fewer that use it. If you want a very popular language you have VB. ;-) Even if Ada would die, though I cannot see that happening in any near future, you will have a very nice experience and a different approach to programming than if you only do C(++). Also my experience is that Ada is so nice that it makes programming fun again. If you look at Sourceforge you will see that a far amount of the projects are actually C. I mean people use C to build a desktop (sic)! (see http://www.gnome.org/). Learn Ada and enjoy it! Preben