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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:41:07 -0500
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"Simon Clubley" <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote in 
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> On 2014-06-16, Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
...
> I think the core question here is: do you want to encourage Ada use by
> more people or do you want Ada to only be used by some ever declining
> elite ?

As Jeff says, Ada is only for software engineers. Most people do not want to 
engineer software. (They shouldn't be allowed near a computer, IMHO, but 
that's never going to happen.) Ergo, Ada is only for an "elite" (and those 
who want to be "elite").

Mass-marketed Ada would have to be the same sort of garbage that you see in 
C-family languages (or worse) -- the point would be completely lost in that 
case.

> If it's the former, then you have to package Ada compilers in a way
> which is relevant to those people or Ada simply will never be considered
> by them.

Most of those people should be kept in a sandbox where they can't do any 
harm. They're not candidates for using Ada. That's probably the only good 
thing about Apple's IOS systems. :-)

                                 Randy.