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!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> From: Stephen Leake Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:02:09 -0500 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xGJxEosnvaYHEQJGIdPp4dH3fe0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: bd3be45b5dd26759e00d421877 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8414 Date: 2007-01-23T05:02:09-05:00 List-Id: artifact.one@googlemail.com writes: > I am a long time C programmer (10 years plus), having a look > at Ada for the first time. From my (inadequate) testing, it seems > that performance of average Ada code is on par with average > C code, and there's a clear advantage in runtime safety. The > GNU ada compiler makes pretty sure that there are very few > platforms without easy access to Ada, so portability should be > on at least an equal footing too. > > My question is: how come Ada isn't more popular? Because most people don't have the same attitude towards language evaluation that you do. Most that I've actually asked have the attitude "C was what I learned in college, and it's good enough for me". Or, in managers, "everyone else is using C, so it must be the best language". When I point out that far more programs are written in Visual Basic, or Excel, they look very puzzled :). Welcome to enlightenment :). -- -- Stephe