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Subject: Re: New IEEE Language Popularity Ratings
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On 10.08.16 08:08, Stu Hollander wrote:
> It's really quite the opposite. C is an unsafe language, C++ is unreadable,
> error-prone and builds on C's worst attributes. Ada is readable, safe, and
> maintainable and was designed (as opposed to C and C++!) from the beginning
> to deal with large systems. It's unfortunate and we all realize it's going
> to stay that way but people really missed out and continue to miss out by
> not looking into Ada and other alternatives.

Part of the reason why people feel right about not looking
into Ada is because Adaists keep telling them how stupid they
are. Would you like Joe Plumper tell you his opinion with you not
even asking for advice? That's not how a salesmen can succeed.
At the same time, people are being payed for producing products
using C++, the money coming from sales of their working programs.

No valuating statement is convincing per se, and, frankly,
typically uninformed about how languages become attractive.
The politics of Ada's initiation, the MBAs' predictable reaction,
and the ads-failure for Ada95 could be telling, but, no...

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