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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> My guess is that no Ada compiler ever could be "mainstream", because
> the language doesn't contain curly brackets -- a for a lot of people,
> programming can only be done in a language with such brackets. (Sadly,
> I'm serious.)

I think you may be correct: I believe that was a big part with the
"problem" with Modula-3's popularity. (Again, there was a commercial
company supporting a compiler -- Critical Mass -- they folded years ago
but kindly open-sourced their work which is now on GitHub.) When Java
came out I was kind of disappointed when I learned more about it, but I
think the C-style syntax -- one of the most obvious attributes -- was a
big winner.

-- Mark