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Subject: Re: an idea to make Ada popular: Aython?
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From: Xavier Petit <xpetit@becoast.fr>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 12:00:42 +0100
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I think Ada syntax is one of its strengths.

Python syntax is case sensitive which I tend to hate these days I'm
almost happy to type in a Windows console and get case insensitive paths.

Plus the main thing that makes people love a language syntax is the
ability to write small lines of code, less characters. Today we have
retina displays and virtually unlimited storage space... I can't understand.

You can buy a recent video game 50€ and yet be in the total incapacity
of playing it (because the game crashes on a game oriented computer)...
And some people think, say (maybe they're right) that Javascript is the
future. Wonderful times.

But even if one day programmers want to write reliable and efficient
software, they wont use Ada. They will still use the same bad tools and
try to use it in the rightest way.

I think Ada needs a bigger community and more advertising with
impressive arguments and examples, showing the reasons a programmer
could try to learn the language. Knowing the hardest thing to a C++
programmer is to learn to think and code with Ada philosophy, not
writing C++ in Ada.

Maybe a tool ? So easy to use, or so powerful compared to the existing
that people will try the language.