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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!oleane.net!oleane!skymaster!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:04:08 +0200 Organization: Guest of France Telecom's news reading service Message-ID: References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <1g5v98l6p9j6.omv7rea0j13k.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: s5.feed.news.oleane.net 1092826940 9313 195.25.228.57 (18 Aug 2004 11:02:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:02:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1g5v98l6p9j6.omv7rea0j13k.dlg@40tude.net> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2806 Date: 2004-08-18T12:04:08+02:00 List-Id: > That time there were no user movements we observe now. That Borland > chose > Pascal and not Ada was rather a coincident (probably they wanted not > to be > bound by any standard, making a product for what was seen as a "play > station".) Historical note: Borland did consider making an Ada compiler at some point, but gave up when they discovered they couldn't make a Borland Ada "better" than regular Ada. The team they hired at that time tried to continue the project by themselves (they asked me to participate), but it never came out. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr