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!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s71.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s71 1169583095 12.201.97.213 (Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:11:35 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:11:35 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:11:35 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8442 Date: 2007-01-23T20:11:35+00:00 List-Id: Arthur Evans Jr wrote: > > Ada came out at a time when the government in general and the defense > Department in particular were widely perceived as evil. Since Ada was > intended to be used to write programs that would kill people, some > perceived it as inherently evil. Many folks, myself included, made the > argument that wrenches are used to build weapons; should we ban > wrenches? Those who had already made up their minds couldn't or wouldn't > hear that argument. These people never seemed to be very concerned about the DOD's involvement in COBOL, either.