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Date: 2018-04-16T07:07:04-07:00
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On Monday, April 16, 2018 at 12:36:03 AM UTC-5, Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Dan'l Miller" writes:
> > How will Ada use one base of programmers/software-engineers as a basis
> > to move onto convincing another group of programmers/software-
> > engineers of Ada's advantages?  Or is the purpose of Ada to preach to
> > its current choir without trying to fill the pews with new
> > parishioners?
> ...
> Tim Sweeney's well-known talk "The Next Mainstream Programming
> Language" conveys a similar idea:
> 
> https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/docs/sweeny.pdf

What an awesome fundamental approach to language design:  focus first and foremost on the troublesome frequent use-cases.  Customer first.  Not unlike Ada83 with DoD/NATO as customer first back in the day.