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!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.aset.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: "Bob Spooner" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:37:48 -0500 Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Message-ID: References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169588206.234714.312650@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169624573.534128.172610@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <87sle0sv9o.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <1169655934.028861.51000@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nat3.arl.psu.edu X-Trace: f04n12.cac.psu.edu 1169739471 24850 128.118.40.78 (25 Jan 2007 15:37:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@f04n12.cac.psu.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:37:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8545 Date: 2007-01-25T10:37:48-05:00 List-Id: "Adam Beneschan" wrote in message news:1169655934.028861.51000@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com... > ... > Perhaps we should just concede that C is a "more expressive > language"---with about as much benefit as there is to teaching math > students to be "more expressive" as opposed to getting the right > answer. > > -- Adam > My view of expressiveness in a computer language is that it is inversely proportional to the distance between the problem space and the solution space. In other words, it is a measure of how high a level of abstraction in which you can work when you use it. Bob