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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
> Le 13/08/2019 à 15:25, Optikos a écrit :
>> On Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 1:48:02 AM UTC-5, reinert wrote:
>>> What is the best Linux distribution for Ada programmers?
>>> Debian? Ubuntu?
>>>
>>> reinert
>> 
>> There was a time …
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3HvUH4fJPM
>> 
>> … when Debian (or all? Debian-derived) was clearly & definitively
>> the correct answer to this question, but Ludovic Brenta doesn't post
>> here at c.l.a anymore, so perhaps his dedication to carrying the Ada
>> torch among the Debian guiding lights might have waned a bit over
>> the years.
>> 
> No, Ludovic is still the maintainer of Debian Ada, and still supporting
> the Ada world, especially by providing sandwiches for the speakers of
> the Ada Dev-room at FOSDEM!

To be perfectly honest, I have indeed lost most of my energy but my
former padawan, Nicolas Boulenguez, hs now beeb a full Debian Developer
for several years and continues to update packages (even now doing the
transition to gnat-9 for the next Debian release, in experimental).  I
am very proud of him.

I only occasionally skim this newsgroup and post even less often.  But
since you're mentioning me I have to express my gratitude and reassure
Debian users that Ada is still going strong :)

IIRC there was a one-man effort to port Ada and many packages to
DragonflyBSD, with the express purpose of stealing the crown jewel from
Debian.  So perhaps DragonflyBSD is a strong contender too nowadays.

A few months ago I held a two-afternoon workshop about cryptography for
my 13-year-old son and a few of his friends.  Of course we programmed in
Ada on Debian.  Piece of cake for everyone involved to get GPS and
GtkAda running.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.
A centralized, purpose-driven, high-definition and activity-centric solid profitability standardizes a high-grade and/or hypothesis-driven modern simplicity.