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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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!news.glorb.com!news.newsland.it!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Cesar Rabak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:10:09 -0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <20070123211651.c0d43695.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: 7BKYF5TERMvIetGm+TTXgQ.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061109) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8508 Date: 2007-01-24T18:10:09-02:00 List-Id: Tero Koskinen escreveu: > Hi, > > On 22 Jan 2007 21:53:32 -0800 artifact.one@googlemail.com wrote: >> My question is: how come Ada isn't more popular? >> > > I would like to throw in yet another possible reason(*) for Ada being > not popular (within the free software folks). As a lot of interesting and complete info already has been posted here, my humble contribution on Tero's view: > > Currently, the only non-restricted free Ada compiler is FSF GCC/GNAT. > However, the GCC development team doesn't consider Ada to be > a release critical language, so it gets less love whenever a new GCC > is released and its quality is sometimes lower than C and C++ parts > of GCC. In addition, Ada part of GCC supports far less platforms than > C and C++ parts. (**) [snipped] FSF actually in their site http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Design-Advice explicitly recommends use of C language as *the* language for FSF Open Source projects. All other factors withstanding, they got clout in their realm. -- Cesar Rabak