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Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada,
 Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family?
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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, To=
uch devices, Sensors and many others. And it much more easy than from C++,C=
# or Java