"Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" wrote in message news:mailman.127.1066703735.25614.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org... > > I really can't guess why you, being an experienced professional in one field, > are disputing a strong and coherent opinion of other professionals on their > territory? > > Note that, after all, there are quite influental persons in Ada world - > compiler vendors, for example - whose current business (and not some hopes > for the indefinite future) heavily depends (or even is based) on Ada, and > therefore they are quite concerned with survival of Ada. Do you think than > they are all blind? That they, with all their experience (note also, that > they are usually linked to C one or another way, so they surely are aware of > augmented assignments) and *current* customer base just don't pay attention > to a customer's need? > *** What makes or breaks a language today isn't what the language can do, it's how you sell it. oh and take things about 2 years back (maybe less) where VB became so popular, does VB have += ? is vb more performant than Ada (don't make me laugh). But this is jus tto illustrate my point. some languages (including C and C++ had good sales departments then everything ramified from that. So when I hear that languages like C++ are popular because they are performant, well like all languages, and C++ is no exception to it, anyone can write bad, slow code in any language. I've seen code that produced the same result actually run faster in VB than it's C++ equivalent (which is sad to say, but true). So no, not all the right reasons determine a langauge's popularity. All it took was a quick boost in popularity and the rest was side effects (companies using C++ because that's what either their allies or their competition was using, they didn't look further than that to decide which language to use. > I just wonder from where your past faith in Ada community was originated. > What was changed dramatically since that? > *** A good question :-). Since for me, it worked the opposite way in the past year and a half. I don't come from an Ada background, but the language features (pretty much all of them too:-), and the community is what converted me (can I say converted on a national Board? this sounds a bit religious, no Ada representative came knocking at my door at 6 AM on sunday morning here ;-)... > > If you can't get the little things right, > > Once more, how can you - not professional programmer, as you said yourself - > be so sure that you know what is right in those little programming things? > So sure that you are trying to press your opinion against a bunch of professional > programmers with very solid experience? > *** Indeed how? -- St�phane Richard "Ada World" Webmaster http://www.adaworld.com