Re: Ada The Best Language?

[David Bolen <db3l@fitlinxx.com>]

"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> writes:

> The www.adaic.org site is a starting place. See:
> 
>     http://www.adaic.org/intro/c.html
> 
> I am sure that others in this ng can give additional references, and in
> some cases testimonials ;-)

Not to derail the better language discussion, but I'm not a current
Ada user and have been lurking for a bit here following the various
URLs and what not, and I was curious about one thing I noticed.

I can't help but be struck by the fact that in almost all cases
(clearly there were a few exceptions), the various documents and
comparisions, and studies, and even some FAQs that I'm able to track
down all seem to be years old at this point (some over 5 years).

The above URL is a good example.  The topmost entry on the above
referenced page (with a banner of "NEW") is from early 1998.  Nothing
in the news but a few conferences were later than 1999 and the current
issue of AdaIC news is Fall of 1997.  And that seems more the rule
than the exception from my browsing.  I've also hit more stray/broken
links on the Ada pages than I've seen in a long time.

Now clearly there doesn't have to be any strong correlation between
such information and the language's viability itself, nor am I trying
to read too much into it, but I couldn't help but notice it, and it
just seemed strange that I didn't find more active, and more
importantly, recent, bits of information.

Given that posters here clearly find use of the language in current,
commercial (not just military although that's obviously still true)
environments, is it just a poor net-presence language, or lack of
interest, or am I just looking in the wrong places?

Thanks.

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-- David
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