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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.67.4.202 with SMTP id cg10mr23541194pad.42.1404999010907; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 06:30:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.1.230 with SMTP id 6mr1686obp.31.1404999010750; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 06:30:10 -0700 (PDT) Path: buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!hn18no183843igb.0!news-out.google.com!gf2ni6igb.0!nntp.google.com!r10no600079igi.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 06:30:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <72b1318a-2eb6-4129-af9b-5bcfbb329c5b@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.109.190.88; posting-account=XDglRgoAAAAB2wikSHYkYcjK-5hIYGIR NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.190.88 References: <72b1318a-2eb6-4129-af9b-5bcfbb329c5b@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum From: Gerd Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:30:10 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:187489 Date: 2014-07-10T06:30:10-07:00 List-Id: 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 sh= ould be to figure out how to attract more developers, both grand visions an= d 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.