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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a05:6214:130d:: with SMTP id a13mr46419124qvv.113.1564051627448; Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:47:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:5a82:: with SMTP id w2mr62480768oth.240.1564051627178; Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!b26no861580qtq.0!news-out.google.com!a5ni1815qtd.0!nntp.google.com!b26no861576qtq.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:47:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1dc13d50-7606-4530-b5cc-19e07b4d4938@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=47.67.150.46; posting-account=XYi0owoAAAC_eOHXu2MQKhBYUNiEUxE2 NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.67.150.46 References: <5d9a8728-3c5b-4caf-b765-a455ba4d3523@googlegroups.com> <5fb45b9c-d7da-447c-999e-0e8bcce2eed5@googlegroups.com> <1dc13d50-7606-4530-b5cc-19e07b4d4938@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How to make Ada popular. Get rid of ";" at end of statement. From: "Ingo M." Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:47:07 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56935 Date: 2019-07-25T03:47:06-07:00 List-Id: Am Donnerstag, 25. Juli 2019 09:26:29 UTC+2 schrieb Maciej Sobczak: Your statements are correct for the status quo. However, things begin to ch= ange. Systems are getting more and more complex so that test cases and basi= c verification is not sufficient anymore. There is a real demand for better= languages than C++ (there is not even a basic verification standard for C+= + compilers). The rising popularity of languages like Rust and Zig speaks f= or itself. Even Microsoft is evaluating Rust right now. They must have good= reasons for that. Regarding C however I believe it will stay much longer than C++ (if not for= ever) because of its simplicity, and because developers like me consider it= a "high-level assembler". According to the demand for better languages, Ada (2012 and 2020) gets reco= nsidered even by world class embedded systems professionals. Jack Ganssle, = a guy who is pretty well known in the embedded world, confessed to be a hug= e fan of Ada. Guess why.