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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:46:26 +0200
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Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> As I've said before, Ada will never be used willingly by the 98% of of
> developers who aren't software engineers.

But shouldn't we still attempt to reach the remaining 2%?

Comparing the number of JavaScript and Ada developers on GitHub
indicates that there is space to multiply the number of Ada developers
by 50.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
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