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 10.52.184.104 with SMTP id et8mr13278956vdc.4.1405532868594;
        Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:47:48 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.50.43.194 with SMTP id y2mr49041igl.3.1405532868304; Wed, 16
 Jul 2014 10:47:48 -0700 (PDT)
Path: 
 eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!enother.net!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!v10no1034007qac.1!news-out.google.com!gf2ni862igb.0!nntp.google.com!h18no2690685igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:47:47 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <4391ef39-f68e-426e-9947-1a3b1b397f5b@googlegroups.com>
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com;
 posting-host=66.126.103.122;
 posting-account=KSa2aQoAAACOxnC0usBJYX8NE3x3a1Xq
NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122
References: <lq5qv9$hhk$1@speranza.aioe.org>
 <4391ef39-f68e-426e-9947-1a3b1b397f5b@googlegroups.com>
User-Agent: G2/1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <c1d74b6d-386e-4786-bf3f-c93a36845721@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: Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@gmail.com>
Injection-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:47:48 +0000
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
X-Received-Bytes: 1749
X-Received-Body-CRC: 2391198547
Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20977
Date: 2014-07-16T10:47:47-07:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 10:40:50 AM UTC-7, jo...@peppermind.com wrote:

> 10. Jean David Ichbiah apparently did not have a long beard - it has been observed that only programming languages whose inventor has a long beard become truly popular, although nobody knows why.

Length is not a factor.  Judging from a quick Google search, James Gosling's and Bjarne Stroustrup's beards are well-trimmed, not long.  But Jean Ichbiah didn't have a beard at all.  

                               -- Adam