Historical language survey

[Dave]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Peter C. Chapin wrote:
>> kris <foo at bar.com> wrote in news:e8kg0a$14hu$1 at digitaldaemon.com:
>>
>>> Ada
>>
>> I'm not sure how "historical" Ada is... there is currently an active 
>> community of Ada users. In any case, I use Ada a fair amount. In fact, 
>> as I write this I have some Ada code that I'm working on open in 
>> another window.
> 
> For whatever reason, Ada doesn't seem to be a terribly popular language 
> for everyday programming.  It has a lot of nice features though, and 
> I've always been somewhat interested in finding the time to play with it 
> a bit.  In many respects it seems like a stricter version of D.
> 

Isn't Ada still used (required?) for a lot of Dept. of Defense software 
in the U.S.?

I did see some postings for Java a while back, which surprised me 
because I had thought Ada was basically mandated for all DOD work, but 
maybe that still isn't the case.

> I suppose I could add to the list with:
> 
> BASIC
> Prolog
> 
> 
> Sean