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!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp19-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Return-Path: From: Ali Bendriss Organization: The Dementia Research Centre To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:31:57 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: ali.bendriss@drc.ion.ucl.ac.uk 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 NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jan 2007 12:35:02 MET NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.14.223 X-Trace: 1169724902 news-1.free.fr 4945 88.191.14.223:46213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8544 Date: 2007-01-25T12:35:02+01:00 On Tuesday 23 January 2007 06:37, adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote: > wrote in message > news:1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > > My question is: how come Ada isn't more popular? > > Ada suffered, in its early days, from a convergence of several > things. One is that the designers of the language did not anticipate > the impact of the personal computer and the democratization of > computing. There were other factors, as well. > [...] Does the fact that there is no "public" operating system written in Ada is one of this factor ? I think about the closest link between the C language and the *nix systems. -- Ali