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From: steved@pacifier.com (Steve Doiel)
Subject: Re: Can Ada by popularized faster ?
Date: 1997/10/12
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Date: 1997-10-12T00:00:00+00:00
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IMHO Ada is just now becoming 'ripe' for common consumption.  The Ada 
programming language has been there for quite some time, but the development 
environments have been behind.

When a decent debugger gets added to these environments, and a complete GUI 
builder that doesn't make you feel like you're crippled when compared to 
Delphi or Visual BASIC, then I will consider Ada to be in a position to 
compete directly with the more popular environments.

As a programming language I believe that Ada is superior to C, C++, and Delphi 
Pascal, but the development envrionment is still playing catch-up.  But it's 
very close now.  Maybe with the next ObjectAda release?

When this happens, we won't need campaigns to help popularize Ada... it will 
come naturally.

The trick is making it so that there are no big reasons for not using Ada, 
which I believe will happen soon.

SteveD