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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum
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On 07/10/2014 06:30 AM, Gerd wrote:
>
> Forget all those "tagged type" stuff, and offer "classes" so that also C++
> and Java developers can get familiar with it.

That's what Ichbiah said over 20 years ago.

The way to make Ada popular is to get rid of all those pesky run-time checks, 
make it easier to use pointers and do pointer arithmetic, add braces, and relax 
the syntax until you can compile line noise. And change the name to something 
starting with 'C'.

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