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=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD2, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,7b5615402713dcbb X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.204.128.207 with SMTP id l15mr1596540bks.4.1346102607879; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.182.74 with SMTP id cb10mr1915787qab.0.1346102607660; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.28.83 with SMTP id z19mr2143782vdg.20.1346102607621; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Path: m12ni142415bkm.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!r1no24673333qas.0!news-out.google.com!da15ni36163658qab.0!nntp.google.com!r1no1956784qas.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:23:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.79.75.121; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.79.75.121 References: <1dy5xgqtdqpp6$.qio4t8fjk8b5.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <8754e68f-2990-4d67-be92-bab9206de867@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada and Java/C++ From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com Injection-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:23:27 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-08-27T14:23:27-07:00 List-Id: Le lundi 27 ao=FBt 2012 16:35:23 UTC+2, Nomen Nescio a =E9crit=A0: > Sure it does! Anything based on C will be popular. Mmmh - but there are plenty of unpopular C-based languages, especially in t= he "yet-another-safer-C" area... You need marketing, timing (a new technology appearing), and often support = from a large company to have a chance of making a popular language. > That does not mean it's good...but it will be popular. > And conversely, anything not based on C will probably not be popular. I rather agree with the latter ("popular =3D> [has good chances to be] base= d on C") than the former ("based on C =3D> popular"). The tradition is your friend ;-) ... Basically, you need the following for your brand new popular language: - the PDP-11 macro-assembler syntax - force almost all objects to be heap-allocated (optionally, if you want to= look a bit modern, you hide the explicit pointers and provide a garbage co= llector). - something else (anyone ?...) ? With some business talent you make uncompatible versions of the language ov= er time and provide costly services for the upgrades to your captive custom= ers. _________________________=20 Gautier's Ada programming=20 http://freecode.com/users/gdemont