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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:19:28 +0100
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Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> artifact.one@googlemail.com wrote:
>> 
>> My question is: how come Ada isn't more popular?
> 
> Much of what others have posted is good, but I also see:
> 
> Most developers (98% in my experience) are coders. Coders like languages
> like C that let them  code. Then then enjoy spending more time debugging
> then they did coding.
> 
> The other 2% are SW engineers. They like languages like Ada.
> 
> Obviously, C and its ilk are going to be more popular than Ada.

Perhaps we could run an informal poll to see the background of Ada people
here.