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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Newbie wanna Ada
Date: 26 Oct 2001 14:45:25 -0500
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In article <3BD9A519.5040502@maciejsobczak.com>, Maciej Sobczak <maciej@maciejsobczak.com> writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you very much for your answers.
> 
> I'm convinced now that Ada is quite mature technology with lots of stuff 
> behind it, although there is no (S)uper (U)niversal (N)etwork of 
> resellers nor any (M)ajor (S)oftware company like (I)nnocent (B)ig 
> (M)anufacturer, that would shove big bucks into its development. They'd 
> rather play fool with their own, non-standard toys.

Sun has backed Java.

Before that, Microsoft backed Visual Basic.

Before that, IBM backed PL/I.

In each case, if the language prevailed it would boost the fortunes
of its major backer.

Ada is too standardized to provide a major competitive advantage to
a compiler vendor who also happens to sell operating systems.