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Date: 24 Feb 93 04:36:39 GMT
From: ryptyde!mshapiro@nosc.mil  (Michael Shapiro)
Subject: Why won't people use Ada?
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List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

I'm trying to collect reasons (serious, snide, humorous, humorless, etc.)
on why people say they don't, won't, or can't use Ada.  Please e-mail
your responses to me.  I'm trying to put together a paper, of which this 
will form part of one section, on perceptions of Ada's place in our world 
of computing.

If there is any interest, I'll be happy to post or e-mail a collection of 
reasons I receive.

I already have some reasons, so I don't need repeats of them:
- Ada's ten years old and hasn't kept up with modern programming 
  methods.
- Ada's too {big, clumsy, complicated, hard to learn}.
- Our people already know how to program in {C, C++, Modula, Pascal, ...}
  and it would be too {expensive, time-consuming, difficult, ...}
  to have them learn another language.
- Ada compilers are too {expensive, time-consuming, difficult, ...}.
- Real programmer's don't use Ada!

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