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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 03:20:01 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <1402308235.2520.153.camel@pascal.home.net> <85ioo9yukk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <255b51cd-b23f-4413-805a-9fea3c70d8b2@googlegroups.com> <5ebe316d-cd84-40fb-a983-9f953f205fef@googlegroups.com> <2100734262424129975.133931laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <665318547424646901.823673laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <87egynwc8d.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 0gipH8doFnFjPXlWycyiNg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:187241 Date: 2014-06-26T03:20:01+02:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:46:26 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen = a =C3=A9crit: > Jeffrey Carter wrote: > >> As I've said before, Ada will never be used willingly by the 98% of o= f >> developers who aren't software engineers. > > But shouldn't we still attempt to reach the remaining 2%? > > Comparing the number of JavaScript and Ada developers on GitHub > indicates that there is space to multiply the number of Ada developers= > by 50. One can't compare a count of JavaScript developers with a count of Ada = developers, as JavaScript is the native and required language for a comm= on = platform, which is the web platform. -- = =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