From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Learning Ada Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:01:41 +0200 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: <1dab8412-0ff6-4081-b973-783167a37e6cn@googlegroups.com> <620a8fb2-758c-4bca-b4d3-f2e49fce3703n@googlegroups.com> <871rj2cy61.fsf@nightsong.com> <211a3c48-447a-4d23-840d-d868da44f740n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:01:42 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b8bfa5e17d70e5d385e19e3d4cfd8612"; logging-data="19795"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18HWzpxkJG1XZlLMc19W2OXMXcD7lfG0xI=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:slrt5zr13leSHt9f3PM/vw/Rzl0= In-Reply-To: <211a3c48-447a-4d23-840d-d868da44f740n@googlegroups.com> Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:60170 List-Id: On 9/16/20 9:13 AM, Jack Davy wrote: > > The more I look at this language the more I wonder why it isn't more popular. Ada is a language for engineering software. Since 98% of developers are unable to do that, Ada will never be popular as long as such people are allowed to develop software. -- Jeff Carter "IMHO, Interfaces are worthless." Randy Brukardt 117