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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
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On 06/17/2014 04:14 AM, gvdschoot@gmail.com wrote:
>
> That is probably one of the main reasons it isn't a generally used language.
> I have never seen Unix written in Ada. And even the majority of the JSF/F35
> code is written in C++ instead of Ada. Reason? Lack of Ada programmers. So
> the lack of good free compilers (with that I mean BSD/ISC/MIT licensed
> instead of GPL) is hindering the general acceptance more than acknowledged.

The F-35 code was probably written in C++ because there are hard data showing 
that using C++ results in twice the development cost as Ada, and the F-35 
contract was cost-plus, meaning the more it cost, the greater the contractor's 
profit.

That's quite an assertion. I'd have to see some evidence to back it up. All you 
have to do is write a really good quality Ada compiler available under one of 
those licenses targeting all those systems and having a really great library and 
see if a significant amount of the crap being written in C-family languages 
starts being written in Ada.

But I can tell you what the result would be. Ada is a language for software 
engineers, and only about 2% of developers are software engineers. The 98% who 
are coders will never use an Ada-like language by choice.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor,
not the programming language."
Preben Randhol
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