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 Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps89.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Sender: blaak@METROID Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169636785.504223.139630@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <45b8361a_5@news.bluewin.ch> <3pejpgfbki.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <0bwt38dv7e.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> From: Ray Blaak Organization: The Transcend Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:44:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 154.20.94.243 X-Trace: edtnps89 1169973859 154.20.94.243 (Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:44:19 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:44:19 MST Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8641 Date: 2007-01-28T08:44:19+00:00 List-Id: Markus E Leypold writes: > No, I certainly don't like it very much. But I suggest one should take > these factors into consideration before wondering that Ada is not more > popular then C and attributing everything to the presumed fact that > those people that make the other decision are just morons. > > - There are other languages than C around. The success of C has been > largely the result of historical circumstances. > > - It is not technical merit alone on which languages succeed (wether > generally or wether in single projects). > > Hope this text isn't too disjoint. Excellent actually. It is always good to be reminded that the real reasons things succeed or fail often (usually?) have nothing to do with sound logical principles, but instead everything to do with those confusing irrational behaviours people tend to engage in: politics, emotions, first impressions, the insanity of the marketplace in general. It is not enough or even economical to be "right". -- Cheers, The Rhythm is around me, The Rhythm has control. Ray Blaak The Rhythm is inside me, rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net The Rhythm has my soul.