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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: C# new features (v.7)
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"Wesley Pan" <wesley.y.pan@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:276a2153-b81f-4e19-9615-530e798e5798@googlegroups.com...
>I have no doubt that Ada's exposure to the masses would have been
>greatly helped if people could make iOS apps with Ada when iPhones
>first became popular.

Given that Apple wouldn't allow apps in the iTunes store unless they are 
written in one of their "approved" languages and implementations, the odds 
of an Ada iPhone app at the start was none. Taking on Apple's lawyers was 
unlikely to be a winning game unless you are big enough to bully them back 
(i.e. Samsung and Google).

That situation may have changed, but in any case apps don't play to Ada's 
strengths. Most are 99% GUI, doing little of the calculations that Ada would 
help with.

                                   Randy.