From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 7 Apr 93 15:34:50 GMT From: pipex!uknet!warwick!zaphod.crihan.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!scsing.switch.ch!sicsu n!disuns2.epfl.ch!lglsun!nebbe@uunet.uu.net (Robb Nebbe) Subject: Re: Why is Ada succeeding in Europe? Message-ID: <1993Apr7.171803@lglsun.epfl.ch> List-Id: In article <25231@alice.att.com>, bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup) writes: : : : Over the years I have noticed that a new programming language : is invariably more popular on the other side of the Atlantic; : independently of which side you happen to be on at the time. : : I wonder if the Pacific has the same effect on language popularity? Hmm... I'm in Europe and it seems to me that Ada is doing a lot better over here than it is in the U.S. I have also encountered a lot more hostility towards C in Europe than I ever did in the U.S. I would guess that the difference between Europe and the U.S. is that C was firmly entrenched in the universities in the U.S. while the universities in Europe used a much wider mix of languages and were thus more open to accepting a new language. If the choice is between Pascal and Ada the choice is obvious if you want to do a big project. If the choice is between C/C++ and Ada the choice is a lot harder to make. A really big plus for C/C++ is that it integrates so well with UNIX. So well in fact that a large percentage of C programmers don't know what is actually C and what is UNIX. Robb