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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:14:05 +0100 Message-ID: <8pfya15tuq.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jmgl4PQei6HtXfBmvV1MhsdswKg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.195.201 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1169586571 88.72.195.201 (23 Jan 2007 22:09:31 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8472 Date: 2007-01-23T22:14:05+01:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey R. Carter" writes: > Arthur Evans Jr wrote: >> Ada came out at a time when the government in general and the >> defense Department in particular were widely perceived as >> evil. Since Ada was intended to be used to write programs that would >> kill people, some perceived it as inherently evil. Many folks, >> myself included, made the argument that wrenches are used to build >> weapons; should we ban wrenches? Those who had already made up their >> minds couldn't or wouldn't hear that argument. > > These people never seemed to be very concerned about the DOD's > involvement in COBOL, either. Different generation? Regards -- Markus