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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:56:03 -0500
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On 4/18/2014 1:04 PM, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> On 04/18/2014 10:30 AM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>> <rant>
>> The cause of Ada not being popular is that it has been designed to force
>> people to THINK and do things cleanly. People prefer wild hacking and
>> long debugging sessions to sitting back in one's chair and analyzing the
>> problem.
>> </rant>
>

> Yes. Or as I like to put it, Ada is a software-engineering language, and only 2%
> (in my experience) of developers are software engineers. The remaining 98% are
> not going to like Ada; they like hack-away languages like C.
>

If you really want to hack, then there is a new language with
just the right name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_%28programming_language%29

"Hack is a programming language for the HipHop Virtual Machine
  (HHVM) invented by Facebook."

It sounds fun: Facebook, HipHop, hacking, Virtual Machine, and
PHP, all mixed together. What more hacking can a programmer ask
for?

I just had an idea: Make a version of Ada with a compiler switch
to remove all type checking!  This might be the key to making
Ada popular? :)

--Nasser