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Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada?
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<adaworks@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> "Markus E Leypold" <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de> 
> wrote in message news:awirc4gv13.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de...
>>
>> I think I already answered that. Still, on c.l.a, the myth persists
>> that "developers like unsafe languages". In actual reality it's the
>> other way round:
>>
> Unsafe languages like developers?
>>
>> For one reason or other -- as I explained often
>> enough, not related to technical merits of the languages in question
>> -- people like other languages, they just happen to be "unsafe".
>>
> Sort of the way most people are addicted to junk food and would
> rather eat something full of fat and sugar than eat their broccoli.

<...>

> I happen to like Python and I'm using more often now than Ada, for
> non-critical code.  It is quick and easy.   However, I would never think

So perhaps most of the people don't write safety-critical software?
And there is, consider, more than one kind of safety ...

Regards -- Markus