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From: "Gary Lisyansky" <gary_the_fox@richmond.com>
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Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language
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"Russ Paielli" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
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>
> The idea is not to push the syntax "toward the more popular programming
> languages." The idea is to push the syntax toward a cleaner, clearer
> form. That's WHY Python is so popular.

Python as an application language? I seriously doubt. As a scripting tool
it's definitely superior to Perl, and likely is more popular. But as an
application language it clearly can't compete with Java, C++, VB or Delphi.
>
> Russ