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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 MSIE X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7xxUc.26186$9Y6.8181@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:37:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.51 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1092789443 63.184.104.51 (Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:37:23 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:37:23 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2794 Date: 2004-08-18T00:37:23+00:00 List-Id: Kevin Cline wrote: > > I don't your guru got it quite right. Ada failed because most > programmers who tried it found Ada programming to be relative less > productive than programming in other available languages. Ada never > attracted a large enough base of motivated users to develop the > libraries and IDEs that would make it easy to use. Even with > available public domain compilers, almost no one is choosing to > program in Ada. Where there is hard data available, rather than biased opinion such as this, they consistently show that Ada projects reach delivery with half the cost of similar projects in "popular" languages such as C. I doubt if most people agree that more productive means more expensive. -- Jeff Carter "C's solution to this [variable-sized arrays] has real problems, and people who are complaining about safety definitely have a point." Dennis Ritchie 25