Re: Carbon

[Gautier write-only address <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>]

Le vendredi 29 juillet 2022 à 01:48:58 UTC+2, Nasser M. Abbasi a écrit :

> May be people just like { } instead of Begin, End? 

It's a misconception: the "begin" keyword in Ada appears only at the beginning of a body, or for a block statement.
You are confusing with Pascal where the "begin .. end" pair is the equivalent of C's {}'s.
And yes, this aspect of Pascal's syntax is cumbersome, especially with the "if" and "case" statements:
"if x then begin s; t end else begin u; v end".
Spread on several lines and indented, it makes overly long and verbose statements.
Nevertheless it didn't prevent Pascal to be very popular at some periods in time.

> Or may be there is something else going on. 

The main issue is: out of the dozens of languages around, how can someone guess that language X has solved Y's issues?
It is especially difficult in companies, where people who make language choices often don't program themselves.

IMHO the only way to make Ada more popular is to create popular applications with it.