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!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:18:57 -0600 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:18:49 +0000 From: Martin Dowie User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169588206.234714.312650@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1169588206.234714.312650@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.158.163.147 X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-iqDrIikOESdLc2GOXgQarwFl32LYh1OYuhXwr3CHjYcp52d1Dfr5+xGSDsEXkA+4sV/5Z/QW+bJSTmw!azgcDtGlLbJhFcEcpgUZdH4zvQOSrOr3cXOCwbMzToYCMmPZUNTJhYVPvL6oh2iqT7jsw5IxxDfF X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com 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:8449 Date: 2007-01-23T22:18:49+00:00 List-Id: kevin cline wrote: > 3. For the same reason that Limburger cheese isn't more popular. Most > programmers who have tried Ada didn't like it. What makes a programmer > like a new language? Usually, someone comes along and says something > like "Remember that program that we spent two weeks writing in C? > Here's a Perl implementation that I put together in three hours and > one-tenth the code." That's never happened with Ada. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FUD!! http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2000/08/mccormick.html