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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Alex R. Mosteo wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a big supporter of Ada, but I'm the only person that I know that uses
>> it in my work environment (mobile robotics research). Everyone is using
>> either C, C++, python or java.
>>
>> I ceased looking into other languages because I am so comfortable with
>> Ada. I fear I may have missed some interesting boat.
>>
>> Do you know of other languages worth to look at (i.e. that will make an
>> Ada programmer somewhat happy), that are at least as "popular" as Ada,
>> besides these ones mentioned above?
> 
> Modula 2? Plain old Pascal?
> 
> Modula 3 and Eiffel could be contenders but probably not in robotics
> because they mandate garbage collection; this probably precludes any
> kind of hard real-time work.

Eiffel is something I will have to check eventually, even if only as a 
hobby.

> 
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.