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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
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> adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> >
> > Every programming language isbe error-prone at different levels,
including
> > Ada.   The question is how error-prone a language might be.  On a
continuum
> > of more error-prone to less, Ada is at the end of the scale for less
error-prone
> > _____________________________________________________________
> > More
> > Less
> > Error-prone            ------------------>
> > Error-prone
> >
> > Assembler       C                           C++           Java    C#
Ada
> > SPARK
> >                     COBOL-68       COBOL-85   Objective-C        Eiffel
> >                                    Early PL/I
Recent PL/I
> > ______________________________________________________________
>
> Nice concept. Not a very good presentation on my newsreader. Maybe a
> vertical orientation would be better.

Richard needs a blog or other website for his pithy discussions of Ada and
programming. (Indeed, I tried to talk him into doing that some years ago.)
Plain text isn't the best format for his work.

                          Randy.