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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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On 7/29/2022 1:59 PM, Gautier write-only address wrote:

> IMHO the only way to make Ada more popular is to create popular applications with it.

Agree.

But this is big catch 22.

There are no  popular apps written in Ada because not too many
programmers use it, and there are not many programmers who use it
because there are no popoluar apps written in it.

--Nasser