From: leonid.dulman@gmail.com
Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:37:10 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2014-07-17T14:37:10-07:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <lq5qv9$hhk$1@speranza.aioe.org>
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 3:25:17 PM UTC+3, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> The first language I really liked was Pascal.
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> But the Pascal family of languages (including Ada) have
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> clearly failed to become popular, at least compared
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> to the C-family (C, C++, C#, ....)
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> The question is why did this happen?
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> My theory: C was used to develop Unix/Linux and
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> Windows, and this made it easier for applications
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> to be written in C/C++ since the interface to the OS
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> was easier. VMS did not choose C (considered a huge
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> blunder by many. They choose Bliss
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS instead! and we
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> all know what happens to VMS.
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> What is your theory on this? Was there another
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> reason or set of reasons?
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> Can we all blame this success of the C family of
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> languages on Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan
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> brilliance and it being used for Unix?
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> --Nasser
It seems to me that there is no interest that Ada has become a widely used programming language. For example my article "Ada for desktop application" was not accepted on AdaEurope-2014 conference. It describes how to in pure Ada-2012 application works with GUI, Database, Multimedia, Web, Network, Touch devices, Sensors and many others. And it much more easy than from C++,C# or Java
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2014-07-16 12:25 why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family? Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-16 16:55 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-07-16 17:40 ` john
2014-07-16 17:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-16 19:57 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 11:53 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) " Luke A. Guest
2014-07-17 17:06 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) " Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-16 20:52 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, " Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-16 19:22 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) " Simon Wright
2014-07-16 19:52 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) " Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 2:14 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-17 5:29 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, anon
2014-07-17 12:24 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Dan'l Miller
2014-07-22 0:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-22 0:59 ` pincerfae
2014-07-22 14:41 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Dan'l Miller
2014-07-22 21:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-16 17:41 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family? Adam Beneschan
2014-07-16 23:06 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) " Simon Clubley
2014-07-16 22:10 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) " torralbaduran
2014-07-17 11:08 ` Harvey White
2014-07-17 12:04 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) " Simon Clubley
2014-07-17 12:11 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) " Simon Clubley
2014-07-17 12:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-18 2:17 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-07-18 6:53 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) " Simon Wright
2014-07-17 21:37 ` leonid.dulman [this message]
2014-07-17 22:25 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) " Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-17 23:50 ` Shark8
2014-07-18 1:00 ` Lucretia
2014-07-18 8:01 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-18 15:35 ` Presentation for the Ada-Europe conference (Was: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-07-19 9:10 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family? Pascal Obry
2014-07-18 11:09 ` leonid.dulman
2014-07-18 18:08 ` isaac1.0
2014-07-18 19:04 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-07-21 23:09 ` isaac1.0
2014-07-19 14:03 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-07-19 12:17 ` jm.tarrasa
2014-07-19 14:12 ` gvdschoot
2014-07-19 14:26 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, Delphi, Algol, ...) " Simon Clubley
2014-07-19 14:35 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) " gvdschoot
2014-07-19 16:38 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-19 17:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-19 14:56 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-19 15:20 ` gvdschoot
2014-07-19 17:56 ` Per Sandberg
2014-07-20 19:40 ` pincerfae
2014-07-20 22:30 ` Shark8
2014-07-20 22:51 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-07-20 23:11 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2, Oberon, " Shark8
2014-07-20 23:21 ` why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, " Dan'l Miller
2014-07-21 1:42 ` Shark8
2014-07-21 4:57 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-21 6:51 ` Shark8
2014-07-21 18:01 ` pincerfae
2014-07-20 23:18 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-21 1:16 ` Shark8
2021-05-27 6:53 ` Robin Vowels
2021-05-27 7:55 ` ldries46
2021-05-27 16:45 ` Robin Vowels
2021-05-28 7:22 ` ldries46
2021-05-28 13:59 ` Robin Vowels
2021-05-27 23:47 ` Wilson
2021-05-27 15:46 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2021-05-27 16:00 ` Paul Rubin
2021-05-27 16:49 ` Robin Vowels
2021-05-27 17:53 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2021-05-28 0:34 ` John Perry
2021-05-28 12:37 ` Shark8
2021-05-28 13:07 ` John Perry
2021-05-28 13:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-05-30 16:12 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-05-30 19:00 ` Bill Findlay
2021-05-31 14:26 ` Paul Rubin
2021-06-01 0:32 ` Bill Findlay
2021-06-01 3:34 ` Paul Rubin
2021-06-01 11:23 ` Bill Findlay
2021-06-01 16:46 ` Paul Rubin
2021-06-01 23:04 ` Bill Findlay
2021-06-02 14:04 ` John Perry
2021-06-02 14:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-02 17:26 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-02 18:13 ` Bill Findlay
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2021-05-28 19:22 ` Paul Rubin
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2021-06-02 19:17 ` Gabriele Galeotti
2021-06-02 23:11 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-06-03 1:29 ` Gabriele Galeotti
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