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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective? Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 19:39:30 +0100 Message-ID: <0001HW.20F291E2002A542F70000C5E92CF@news.individual.net> References: <856189aa-fa00-4960-929e-174f352310ad@googlegroups.com> <2718c8d4-5f35-4fd8-a1aa-1e60069a7a5d@googlegroups.com> <39fce60c-9f56-42fb-b679-fa08810b00ee@googlegroups.com> <3701bf07-89a5-4cb0-a704-5aebb589ca79@googlegroups.com> <2f5e4ce0-94e8-4b94-9da7-045ec90a9b22@googlegroups.com> <9bb99fb4-b9c7-4516-97b5-da41466e96be@googlegroups.com> <1162d6bf-c226-4089-ae2e-870c7da9c80f@googlegroups.com> <2f5399b4-518b-4a2e-9941-2ae267d51309@googlegroups.com> <1ab5db5c-7892-40a8-ae36-ca1ec1168768@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net gs7zFy4+kK1K9XMYJb2waQOm5uQ+jk5bDZHKuylqC87pkhg6W6 X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:WkHDgemE8cgevaUOl3nYfA32emU= User-Agent: Hogwasher/5.19 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53732 Date: 2018-07-08T19:39:30+01:00 List-Id: On 8 Jul 2018, Dan'l Miller wrote (in article<1ab5db5c-7892-40a8-ae36-ca1ec1168768@googlegroups.com>): > If there is one single root-cause reason that Ada failed to launch > on the launchpad from, say, 1985 to 1993, it was this spurned-detest of Ada > in telecom, not because of what was in or not in Ada, but because telecom was > excluded from the selection process. There is another. The right-on then-dominant faction in CS academia, who might have been expected to welcome a language soundly based on SE principles, boycotted it without further consideration, simply because it originated in the DoD. That attitude persists in some quarters, BTW. Oh, and the reptilian demeanour of some Ada compiler salespersons didn't help. The ones who creeped me out were from Plaid Workshops (or something like that). -- Bill Findlay