From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!130.59.10.21.MISMATCH!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!news.ecp.fr!news1.int-evry.fr!u-psud.fr!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!proxad.net!cleanfeed1-a.proxad.net!nnrp3-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Return-Path: Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:58:33 +0100 From: "Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)" Subject: AW: How come Ada isn't more popular? In-reply-to: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Thread-topic: How come Ada isn't more popular? Thread-index: Acc+t/TmX67LMBsAS2uVWgeq08nPdwAAIPJA X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Jan 2007 06:58:36.0009 (UTC) FILETIME=[E7155590:01C73EBB] X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9rc1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.17.134 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Jan 2007 08:00:02 MET NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.14.223 X-Trace: 1169535602 news-3.free.fr 16839 88.191.14.223:53679 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8408 Date: 2007-01-23T08:00:02+01:00 This has been asked several times, and I think you'll get many opinions. There are historical reasons, but by now, they are no longer relevant. In effect, there is no real reason why she isn't more popular - I personally cannot understand this. Most of the arguments you hear against Ada are in fact made up - people just don't want to use her, they're happy with whatever they're using. Mind you, I do not argue that there are strong reasons why some project does not use Ada - we're talking popularity here.