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From: Gautier.DeMontmollin@maths.unine.ch
Subject: Re: Is there a language that Dijkstra liked? (was: Re: Software
 landmines (loops))
Date: 1998/10/09
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> IMO Ada died because:
          ^^^^
You should have written IMHO - even IMVHO ...

>   -- A lot of programmers scoff at anything the miltary does and the
>      whole defense industry. In fact, defense workers are high tech lepers.
So you suppose that the military only are using Ada. Tsssss

>   -- Ada compilers were late, buggy, slow, too expensive, no libraries, ....
... and now some are fast, reliable, free, with full libraries & bindings,
    providing optimizations (cross-package inlining) that can only be
    simulated with macros in old-fashioned languages.

>   -- Ada was not C, thus perceived worthless for Unix and Windows.
You're right, in these language wars, it's rather perception than reflexion !

>   -- Mismanagement by the DOD.
You're maybe right; fortunately it's no more a military affair...

>   -- No hyped technology that it could be piggybacked on. (Like C, Java)
>   -- Winning cold war sucked most of the life out of the defense field.
Hurra: Ada users don't have to fear from mismanagement by the DOD anymore...

Gautier

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