From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Why Ada isn't as successful as it should be
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:36:26 +0200
Date: 2012-06-20T07:36:26+02:00 [thread overview]
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Le 20/06/2012 01:04, ggsub@pragmada.co.cc a �crit :
> On Monday, June 18, 2012 11:12:20 AM UTC-7, Adam Beneschan wrote:
>> Maybe it isn't about the syntax, the verbosity, or the lack of text-handling support:
>
> I guess someone needs to grow a beard and invent a "new" language (that will just happen to be identical to Ada in all but name).
>
Actually, there migh be some truth here. Successful languages are made
by hackers for hackers. Ada and some others was made by engineers for
professional software developers. And the beard may well be more
frequent in the first category than in the second one.
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J-P. Rosen
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-18 18:12 Why Ada isn't as successful as it should be Adam Beneschan
2012-06-18 18:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-20 5:20 ` quiet_lad
2012-06-20 7:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-19 23:04 ` ggsub
2012-06-20 5:36 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2012-06-20 5:23 ` quiet_lad
2012-06-20 14:15 ` leonid.dulman
2012-06-20 17:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-20 18:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-20 20:56 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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