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From: kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: 27 Aug 2004 14:48:54 -0700
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Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message news:<cgn7bm$snk$3@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>...
> Kevin Cline <kevin.cline@gmail.com> wrote:
> :   OTOH, there is no way in Ada to produce the equivalent of
> : sophisticated C++ libraries like the Boost spirit parser.
> 
> There might be no way to produce the exact equivalent of C++ template
> computing based libraries using Ada generics.
> There certainly are ways to produce sophisticated libraries in Ada.
> For the spirit parser, see my other post about the SPITBOL library.
> 
> : But Ada has been almost universally ignored by the Computer Science
> : research community.
> 
> Could you give some examples?

An example of what?  Of computer scientists who do not program in or
teach Ada?

Are there any CS programs that have chosen Ada as their core language?
 I rarely meet recent graduates with any exposure to Ada at all.  For
better or worse, (worse in my opinion), most CS departments seem to
have settled on Java.