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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
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Alex R. Mosteo wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a big supporter of Ada, but I'm the only person that I know that uses it
> in my work environment (mobile robotics research). Everyone is using either
> C, C++, python or java.
>
> I ceased looking into other languages because I am so comfortable with Ada.
> I fear I may have missed some interesting boat.
>
> Do you know of other languages worth to look at (i.e. that will make an Ada
> programmer somewhat happy), that are at least as "popular" as Ada, besides
> these ones mentioned above?

Modula 2? Plain old Pascal?

Modula 3 and Eiffel could be contenders but probably not in robotics
because they mandate garbage collection; this probably precludes any
kind of hard real-time work.

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Ludovic Brenta.