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On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:58:39 +0100, Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir wrote:

> An execution is of course important, but Ada works without being
> popular.

Ada is the execution of an idea. Imagine if someone came up and said 
“let’s take Pascal as the basis for a high-reliability, real-time 
programming language”. Who would believe you?