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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,349657f8b72f2411 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: SpamSpamSpam Subject: Re: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed? Date: 1999/03/25 Message-ID: <36F9F4B7.7DEC3061@spam.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 458848795 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7d8ik6$s6d$1@its.hooked.net> <7dbl0d$17$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: spameater Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: spamwithchipsplease@spam.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Markus Kuhn wrote: > Ada programmers have often very different personalities than Java > programmers. > I have nothing against Java itself, it is indeed one of the nicer > languages around, just like Ada95 and Eiffel. It just causes in me > a slight aversion if something becomes a bit too popular, and this > has happened with Java. There is a subculture that does not like to run with the herd, that wantto operate within a minority precisely because its a minority - that popularity is somehow a negative quality. Is this is alive and well within the Ada world? I'd rather Ada was mainstream, but I cannot see that happening without the JAVA type marketing so berated here, I wishfully want to believe that rumour/myth that M$ is about to jump onboard. The best advert I can think of for Ada is any open source C code sample, but it does not seem to stop an army of 'C' language graduates appearing each year.