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 Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!e511c328!not-for-mail From: Charles D Hixson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061219 Iceape/1.0.7 (Debian-1.0.7-2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <20070123211651.c0d43695.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> <87zm89tpk7.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4q4pqgmdwo.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <1169719988.972296.121430@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1169719988.972296.121430@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:30:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.245.56.19 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net 1169875814 66.245.56.19 (Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:30:14 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:30:14 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8618 Date: 2007-01-27T05:30:14+00:00 List-Id: Harald Korneliussen wrote: > > On 25 Jan, 09:37, Maciej Sobczak wrote: >> Markus E Leypold wrote: >> ... > > ... > Anyway, I think individuals are less important than culture. You could > read this straight out of the wikipedia page for C (until I changed it > slightly ...): "the safe, effective use of C requires more programmer > skill, experience, effort, and attention to detail than is required for > some other programming languages." So if you use C, that means you are > skilled, experienced and attentive, by some people's logic. It's a > macho thing, "If you can't handle the power, don't use it!". > > Klingon programmers if there ever were any. > > It's of course a symptom of lack of professionalism: construction > workers who are proud of what they do wear their helmets. > I think you picked up the right reason by the wrong handle. C was the language of Dec computers, and of Kernighan and Ritchie, so everyone associated with Unix started using C. So everyone associated with Unix and Linux uses C. It's more historic than anything else.