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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.157.40.103 with SMTP id h36mr1837968otd.20.1470813829736; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:23:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.17.86 with SMTP id p22mr158839otp.9.1470813829692; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:23:49 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!f6no8752380ith.0!news-out.google.com!d68ni22714ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no8773484ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:23:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=185.40.134.3; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG NNTP-Posting-Host: 185.40.134.3 References: <31c22983-150c-4dab-abba-588e15f75914@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4405114b-0046-4588-a1fc-a7cf45da7d6f@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: New IEEE Language Popularity Ratings From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com Injection-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 07:23:49 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31347 Date: 2016-08-10T00:23:49-07:00 List-Id: Stu Hollander: > If C and C++ had no libraries they'd also be unusable... Libraries are the key. Let's write more of them! > [...] there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell FORTRAN was going to be > displaced. To some degree FORTRAN and Fortran are still hanging on. That's the encouraging part, because 40 years later, FORTRAN *has* been dis= placed, and we can safely say that in its turn C{++} (0, 2 or 4 "++") "hasn= 't a snowball's chance in hell" (love this expression!) to be displaced :-)= . Now, travel a few decades further... _________________________=20 Gautier's Ada programming=20 http://www.openhub.net/accounts/gautier_bd