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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Ada - buzzword or not? (Was: Ada-Europe 2007 early registration
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Hugh wrote:
> Dirk Craeynest wrote:

>>                    12th International Conference on
>>            Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2007
>>
>>                 25 - 29 June 2007, Geneva, Switzerland
>>
>>             http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2007.html

> Seem to remember ADA was a common buzzword 15 years ago, [...]

I've never percieved Ada as a buzzword.

> Does anyone still use it or is it another of those 80's type
> defuncto type language like Pascal and Modulo2?

I use it.  I have done it since Ada was added to GCC in 1994-95.  And
I know of one software engineering school where it is tought and one
more where the professors keeps it for themselves here in Denmark.

Greetings,

Jacob
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