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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:11:20 +0100
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> The example is wrong C, but the point is that such examples show little if
> anything. Who is designing console applications today? What about "Hello
> World" in X11, Windows API, GTK+ or similar with a requirement of some
> definite look-and-feel? If we looked at C, Ada, Python code of that, we
> would find all them far from being expressive.

I'd say such micro examples don't show anything even if you make them
GUI examples. A graphical "hello world" in Tcl/Tk would be:

pack [label .l -text "Hello World!"]

So why isn't  Tcl/Tk the most popular language today?

One hint on why Ada isn't popular might be my own case. I'm an
autodidact in programming (I'd never dare to call me software
engineer). I learned programming at the age of 14 with BASIC, later I
discovered Turbo-Pascal and liked it much better (I had to unlearn
some quite bad BASIC habits).

When I switched from DOS to OS/2 I found out what's so bad about
vendor lock in: no Turbo-Pascal for OS/2. So I looked for a better
standardized language and changed to C/C++ but never liked it
much. I've found out about Ada only 3 years ago on Usenet. Finally
there was a (Turbo-)Pascal done right. Had there only been more
advertising for Ada95 10 years ago that could have saved me years of
C.

-- 
Michael Bode