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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1mahvxskejxe1$.tx7bjdqyo2oj$.dlg@40tude.net> <2tfy9vgph3.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <1g7m33bys8v4p.6p9cpsh3k031$.dlg@40tude.net> <14hm72xd3b0bq$.axktv523vay8$.dlg@40tude.net> <4zwt33xm4b.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <1j7neot6h1udi$.14vp2aos6z9l8.dlg@40tude.net> <1170347180.14376.104.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1170363233.23845.118.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:57:04 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:usk1Mf30zaChqZWTeBGr9Gn+1dE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.246.10 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1170366729 88.72.246.10 (1 Feb 2007 22:52:09 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.unit0.net!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8850 Date: 2007-02-01T22:57:04+01:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus writes: <...> Well another long reply which will have to be read and replied to carefully. I won't have the time today, so just some asides that can stay short. > Time and space are not normally considered the hall mark > of equational reasoning in FP. I think it is safe to say that > when you write a real-time application in Ada, you will be > thinking about time and space all the time, and you want this > task to be straight forward. As few implicit things as possible. Mayhaps when you write real-time application. I, at least, I'm not talking about real-time application. AFAIR Ada was conceived as rather general programming language. If we restrict ourselves to real-time programming today -- fine -- then the question "How come Ada isn't more popular?" is already answered in a sense. Additionally all that: "Uuuh, look they (let's say: the open source people, as somebody in this thread did) they are using C or C++. My God, how can they." All that is quite supeflous than, since In revers I conclude Ada programming is not about real-time programming only. At least to me that seems seems to be the ambition a significant number of people at c.l.a still have. At least in theory. Regards -- Markus