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Optikos <optikos@verizon.net> writes:
> People don't like Ada because it is a taskmaster of correctness.
> Actually people don't mind Ada being a taskmaster of correctness per
> se; they mind that they cannot easily find & memorize & digest the

I think it's simpler than that.  They don't like Ada because Ada
programs are very verbose for what they do.  Haskell is a taskmaster of
correctness that is hard to learn, but its code is concise, and its
users like it and its non-users mostly respect it.  Java is not
particularly a taskmaster of correctness and is not hard to learn, but
it is verbose and I don't think anyone (even its users) particularly
likes it.  People like Rust, but I'm not familiar with it enough to
compare it with Ada on these scales.