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From: Dr Chaos <mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@NOSPAMyahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
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Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 
> How do you determine the success or failure of a language?

A) how many people use it and for what magnitude of tasks, and 

B) how influential its design and ideas were intellectually,
and how many other languages were influenced by it and
how many times it itself gets revised with new ideas

> Did Cobol succeed or fail?

succeed / fail 

> Did Fortran succeed or fail?

succeed / succeed

> Did Bourne Shell succeed or fail?

succeed / fail 

> How about Common Lisp, smalltalk, or eiffel?

fail/succeed
partial succeed/partial succeed
fail/partial succeed