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!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:25:18 -0600 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169636785.504223.139630@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:25:18 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.164.83.70 X-Trace: sv3-HH51WKYmmAvf8zVuhmFF3thF6Z5wrackyZUDseLkmHTR4zW6duZ8qSYdFxsfx7hP+GO/m+suFKua05n!frlWXwIeNAtXMFynzTV+vpItdGGz/Z1JQX/qSPvBKgozbavbU70fyJpVUZF2LzhxiBPahd003M4J!fieaRwPhNgq7tg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8502 Date: 2007-01-24T13:25:18-06:00 List-Id: > > Windows 95 was the 1st widely used OS with support for tasking. Ada (95) > > was the only widely available language with support for tasking at the > > time. We probably lost a good opportunity to gain more acceptance of Ada > > by not including a standard windowing library and promoting Ada as the > > best language for taking advantage of Win95's features. > > Mmmh I think it was a good idea *not* to include a standard windowing > library: then now Ada would be stuck with an outdated standard > windowing library. There was also another problem then: the lack of a > good but cheap or free compiler. Actually some of us did try to make a standard Windows library and promote Ada as the best language for Windows programming (see "CLAW, a High Level, Portable, Ada 95 Binding for Microsoft Windows" TriAda 1997). As a matter of fact, it seems everybody who wanted access to the Windows API designed a standard windowing library - eg GWindows et al. Also, there was the Janus Ada compiler which was pretty cheap at something like $100, and the early versions of the free Gnat compiler were coming out at that time.