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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9dc2c03e552da989 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.228.227 with SMTP id sl3mr6812568pbc.5.1340170586152; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:36:26 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni71298pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why Ada isn't as successful as it should be Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:36:26 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <002c20b6-1ded-4fb4-8d92-6546f5892fe2@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:36:25 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cJo7kSTQUrCFv2/D8KKtqw"; logging-data="21388"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BrDnQlMKiXiV3yKgsqO61" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: <002c20b6-1ded-4fb4-8d92-6546f5892fe2@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:CUH7EbkKIlmgiBODulnsR0d/sx4= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 X-Received-Bytes: 1907 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-06-20T07:36:26+02:00 List-Id: 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. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr