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 10.236.4.132 with SMTP id 4mr1747390yhj.28.1405681760026; Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:09:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.109.234 with SMTP id hv10mr28217obb.2.1405681759921; Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!j15no1353956qaq.0!news-out.google.com!bp9ni945igb.0!nntp.google.com!h18no3539801igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:09:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=77.126.104.228; posting-account=gOkKbAoAAACKpspXTBDXeWNsiTyhFowY NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.126.104.228 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family? From: leonid.dulman@gmail.com Injection-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:09:19 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:187693 Date: 2014-07-18T04:09:19-07:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 3:25:17 PM UTC+3, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > The first language I really liked was Pascal. > > But the Pascal family of languages (including Ada) have > > clearly failed to become popular, at least compared > > to the C-family (C, C++, C#, ....) > > > > The question is why did this happen? > > > > My theory: C was used to develop Unix/Linux and > > Windows, and this made it easier for applications > > to be written in C/C++ since the interface to the OS > > was easier. VMS did not choose C (considered a huge > > blunder by many. They choose Bliss > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS instead! and we > > all know what happens to VMS. > > > > What is your theory on this? Was there another > > reason or set of reasons? > > > > Can we all blame this success of the C family of > > languages on Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan > > brilliance and it being used for Unix? > > > > --Nasser You can see all in my webpage http:/users1.jabry.com/adastudio/index.html