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I rarely disagree with "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> but
when he wrote:

> > Java is a very popular language along C/C++. Ada has fine qualities for
> > writing robust code, that Java and c/C++ languages are missing.
> 
> Popularity of a language, programming or natural, has nothing to do with
> its syntax.

Sure it does! Anything based on C will be popular.

That does not mean it's good...but it will be popular. And conversely,
anything not based on C will probably not be popular.