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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f51e93dacd9c7fca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-21 01:48:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed01.univie.ac.at!news.netway.at!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nnum.kpnqwest.net!EU.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D12E8B5.74160ACF@cfmu.eurocontrol.be> From: Ian Wild Reply-To: ian.wild@eurocontrol.int Organization: Hierarchical X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.30 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: status of Ada STL? References: <3D0D18D5.2020601@telepath.com> <4519e058.0206170611.260a3951@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0206180630.b6ef8cd@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0206190635.48fe03a5@posting.google.com> <3D11C9ED.4010709@telepath.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: ecw.eurocontrol.be!unknown@193.221.189.77 X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:48:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.221.170.178 X-Complaints-To: abuse@kpn.be X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1024649285 193.221.170.178 (Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:48:05 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:48:05 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26541 Date: 2002-06-21T08:48:05+00:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > >... > Somebody ought to do a study. It seems that you can almost predict the > popularity of a language based on whether or not it uses "=" for > assignment. It seems that all the major languages use "=", and all the > minor languages use something else. Hence the massive popularity of PL/I, Rexx, and Snobol these days, compared to rarely-used languages like Postscript, Emacs lisp, and Forth.