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Subject: Re: AW: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG) wrote:

> Mind you, I do not argue that there are strong reasons why some project
> does not use Ada - we're talking popularity here.

Popularity is the key thing surely - the chicken and egg. As a software
manager in a commercial business, I employ C programmers because there
are so few Ada programmers around in the UK. There are so few Ada
programmers in the UK because I employ C programmers! How do you break
that chain?

There are many examples in marketing history of inferior products
becoming the more widespread, e.g. Betamax v VHS video recorders, MSDOS
v Concurrent CPM-86. I guess this is just another one of them.