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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: an idea to make Ada popular: Aython? Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 10:14:23 -0700 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:11:38 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="caa759af2a9c666aec02942f6fe5abd6"; logging-data="973"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/DNh4Rcl0Vbd6mwMHtAT5UonOSh9UPR7E=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:do11vc4Hws1yGm/a12/64pI0eJo= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29220 Date: 2016-01-24T10:14:23-07:00 List-Id: On 01/24/2016 01:10 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > > Any thoughts? Will this be the magic trick to make Ada popular? Could > this work for Ada? Do you see any technical reasons why this > might not work for Ada as it does for Fortran? What makes you think it's working for Fortran? A "lot of discussion on" comp.lang.fortran doesn't mean it's made Fortran more popular, just that it's generated discussion among those already using Fortran. But even if it works for Fortran, I doubt it would help Ada. As I've said before, Ada is a S/W-engineering language. Since 98% of developers aren't S/W engineers, nothing will make S/W-engineering languages popular. -- Jeff Carter "This school was here before you came, and it'll be here before you go." Horse Feathers 48