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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.52.114.42 with SMTP id jd10mr8678016vdb.0.1405885245952; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:40:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.97.74 with SMTP id dy10mr20772igb.1.1405885245736; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Path: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!j15no1707836qaq.0!news-out.google.com!eg1ni1igc.0!nntp.google.com!h18no4670083igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:40:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <53cab152$0$32501$862e30e2@ngroups.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=206.188.60.100; posting-account=ctJm-AoAAABQaCDtzbgPWk5DGAl9lKGW NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.188.60.100 References: <53cab152$0$32501$862e30e2@ngroups.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <5f6c4a25-4ed9-4b0e-bb60-199d012ee0d0@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family? From: pincerfae@gmail.com Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:40:45 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:187729 Date: 2014-07-20T12:40:44-07:00 List-Id: I would guess that Ada/Pascal, et al weren't popular because they weren't backed by corporations like C was. Also, easy to read must equal not powerful. The main problem I'm seeing with Ada is support and community. There isn't a lot of it, and a lot of the resources available are out of date by a few years (software like gnavi and visual ada studio). Every thing else is either really expensive, or not worth having (like the Pro version of GNAT and ObjectAda). As far as the beard length to programming prowess...that wouldn't work for me... a beard on a woman...:p