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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,243dc2fb696a49cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!teaser.fr!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:42:01 +0400 (MSD) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1095968519 65138 212.85.156.195 (23 Sep 2004 19:41:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:41:59 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: ; from Kevin Cline at 23 Sep 2004 02:00:34 -0700 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4045 Date: 2004-09-23T23:42:01+04:00 Kevin Cline wrote: > But the original thread was about Ada popularity. Implicitly, among programmers/software engineers and perhaps software-related managers, I suppose. But this isn't the only possible audience for popularity, even for programming languages. > Relatively few people write avionics code, Just as relatively few people fly airplanes as airline or military pilots or pilots for other services. But quite enough people depend on that flying and its safety and effectiveness. Even in avaiation world there are different kinds of popularity - for example, both Boeing and Cessna are certainly quite popular. And probably much more people fly Cessnas, but does it mean that Cessna is generally more popular than Boeing? > But large projects in Ada or C++ or Java or C# might be small or > medium-sized projects in a higher-level language. Don't you know that a plane cannot fly before the weight of its documentation exceeds its own weight? -:) Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia