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Date: 2014-04-18T03:38:28+02:00
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Le Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:35:47 +0200, Simon Clubley  =

<clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> a =C3=A9crit:

> [=E2=80=A6]
>
> The only compiler implementation language I can think of which matches=

> the above criteria is C.
>
> I really don't know how many times I am going to have to repeat this. =
:-)
>
> If you think I am wrong, then, while telling me I am wrong :-), please=

> also tell me why Ada isn't in much more wider use than it currently is=
.

Because of the crowd and the economy.

Most people enjoy to follow the crowd whether or not it's for good,  =

otherwise most people just become frightened of being isolated, and that=
's  =

even more true with people which would like to become famous in some way=
.  =

Then students prefers to study a language for which there are job offers=
.  =

Recently (I don't know the exact date), the university in the town I liv=
e  =

in, decided to give up with learning Ada, in favour of C/C++, for this  =

exact reason.


-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity