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From: "martinbishop" <jedibebop@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada?
Date: 9 Apr 2007 18:48:44 -0700
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On Apr 9, 8:25 pm, Brian May <b...@snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> >>>>> "martinbishop" == martinbishop  <jedibe...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     martinbishop> I've never been scared of "non mainstream"
>     martinbishop> languages, but I was wondering, what is wrong with
>     martinbishop> Ada?  Why don't more people use it?  What do most
>     martinbishop> people think of it?  To me, it seems like a nice,
>     martinbishop> concise, and safe language, but I haven't used it
>     martinbishop> yet.
>
> This was discussed recently.
>
> Seehttp://groups.google.com.au/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_thread/thread/...
> --
> Brian May <b...@snoopy.apana.org.au>

Ahh, Thanks for that.

I've seen Ada "benchmarks", and it seems the compiler is great, and
the language seems really nice (verbose, but I kind of like that over
languages like Haskell and such).  I figured most people didn't use it
for business or just general popularity reasons, but I thought there
might be some hidden "bad things" or something.

Thanks for all the replies