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: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-26 17:50:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!news-reader.ntrnet.net!uunet!ash.uu.net!spool1.news.uu.net!spool0.news.uu.net!reader2.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Sender: DB3L@CTWD0143 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? References: <5be89e2f.0107250250.2954154c@posting.google.com> From: David Bolen Date: 26 Jul 2001 20:35:45 -0400 Message-ID: Organization: Fitlinxx, Inc. - Stamford, CT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.247.212.3 X-Trace: reader2.news.uu.net 996194156 151 208.247.212.3 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10622 Date: 2001-07-26T20:35:45-04:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org writes: > At a quick count, www.adapower.com has 1500 distinct URLs, about > 30 of which lead to an error 404. About 1100 of those URLs are on > the www.adapower.com site itself, 750 dated 1996 .. 1999, and about > 250 each from 2000 and (so far in) 2001. Considering that the site > is maintained by one unpaid guy in his spare time, that's rather good. > I'd be eager to test my statistics gatherer (written in Ada of course) > against some C++ sites, can you suggest some? It's interesting that I've seen just about all responses wondering about equivalent sites for C++ when I didn't even mention any specific language in my initial post. I guess it's clear who's in Ada's sights, eh? :-) I don't actually have any C++ URLs handy since that's not one of the languages I've been perusing recently. And my original question was really spurred by my own impressions formed as I was browsing through Ada related sites. It's not so much a capabilities comparison as a "feel" for the community. It's obviously a biased sample set, since it's net-centric, so as I mentioned, I'm not implying that I necessarily read too much into it. But for other languages that I've researched recently (and thus would have contributed to my mindset) how about: Python (http://www.python.org) Eiffel (http://www.eiffel.com) OCaml (http://www.ocaml.org) Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en) Haskell (http://www.haskell.org) Or even more niche languages such as Lua (http://www.lua.org) PHP (http://www.php.net/) which while certainly not at all directly comparable to languages like Ada, tended to feel more "alive" in terms of net-presence. Note that these are only offered to help in testing your statistics gatherer - I have absolutely no wish to fan the fires of any inter-language wars :-) (Is the source to your gatherer available?) -- -- David -- /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ \ David Bolen \ E-mail: db3l@fitlinxx.com / | FitLinxx, Inc. \ Phone: (203) 708-5192 | / 860 Canal Street, Stamford, CT 06902 \ Fax: (203) 316-5150 \ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/