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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx02.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Shark8 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/32.0a1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum References: <72b1318a-2eb6-4129-af9b-5bcfbb329c5b@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <05yvv.7990$Zt3.3539@fx02.iad> X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:14:04 UTC Organization: TeraNews.com Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:14:04 -0600 X-Received-Bytes: 1470 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3905119501 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20840 Date: 2014-07-10T09:14:04-06:00 List-Id: On 10-Jul-14 07:30, Gerd wrote: > Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2014 17:19:04 UTC+2 schrieb Dan'l Miller: >> http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programming-languages > Ada is the 36th most-popular language. The over-arching goal of Ada202X > should be to figure out how to attract more developers, both grand visions > and low-hanging fruit. For example, would a first-order-logic library > attract Prolog programmers? > > Forget all those "tagged type" stuff, and offer "classes" so that also C++ > and Java developers can get familiar with it. > But Ada does have classes -- or have you forgotten the 'Class attribute?