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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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On 4/17/2014 8:38 PM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
> Le Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:35:47 +0200, Simon Clubley
> <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> a écrit:
>

>> If you think I am wrong, then, while telling me I am wrong :-), please
>> also tell me why Ada isn't in much more wider use than it currently is.
>
> Because of the crowd and the economy.
>...
> Recently (I don't know the exact date), the university in the town I live
> in, decided to give up with learning Ada, in favour of C/C++, for this
> exact reason.
>
>

But these are the effects of Ada not being used, and the
causes?

Or may be it is a cycle. Ada not being used as much, schools
stop teaching it, and school stop teaching it causes Ada not
being used much.

As I said before many times, the cause of Ada not being popular,
is lack of many useful packages organized and standardized
in some way, to do many useful things, and not the language
itself.


--Nasser