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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "kevin cline" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? Date: 23 Jan 2007 23:42:53 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1169624573.534128.172610@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169588206.234714.312650@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.186.24.38 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1169624578 2647 127.0.0.1 (24 Jan 2007 07:42:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:42:58 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.186.24.38; posting-account=Thx6EwwAAAAirqf96i7UdETSL0vfyj5f Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8463 Date: 2007-01-23T23:42:53-08:00 List-Id: On Jan 23, 4:18 pm, Martin Dowie wrote: > kevin clinewrote: > > 3. For the same reason that Limburger cheese isn't more popular. Most > > programmers who have tried Ada didn't like it. What makes a programmer > > like a new language? Usually, someone comes along and says something > > like "Remember that program that we spent two weeks writing in C? > > Here's a Perl implementation that I put together in three hours and > > one-tenth the code." That's never happened with Ada. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > FUD!! > > http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2000/08/mccormick.html Yes, I've read that article. It would really be sad if Ada were not superior to C for a toy problem in embedded control system development, since Ada was designed specifically for that purpose. But the point was that expressiveness drives programmers to new languages, and Ada isn't particularly expressive.