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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:09:48 GMT, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> 
>>      Turbo Pascal and other alternatives were already in place and
>>      much cheaper than Ada.   A few brave souls tried to compete
>>      with products such as RR Software's Janus Ada and Meridian's
>>      AdaVantage, but the full environment (e.g., integrated editors,
>>      debuggers, etc.) were not in place they were for Turbo Pascal.
> 
> There's always the question of why, given TP's widespread popularity, C 
> became more popular.

Because C was sufficiently worse. At some point Visual Basic came and
superseded both... (:-))

>> 6) Really good compilers began to appear around 1989.   By then Ada's reputation
>>     for being slow, cumbersome, and hard to use had already been firmly set.
> 
> Actually, the DEC Ada compiler of 1984 was pretty good.

Yes!
 
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