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 Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-stoc.telia.net!217.209.241.210.MISMATCH!news-stod.telia.net!telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <1g5v98l6p9j6.omv7rea0j13k.dlg@40tude.net> In-Reply-To: <1g5v98l6p9j6.omv7rea0j13k.dlg@40tude.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:32:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1092825177 217.209.116.179 (Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:32:57 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:32:57 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2805 Date: 2004-08-18T10:32:57+00:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > 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".) You're saying they seriously considered writing "Turbo Ada" instead of=20 Turbo Pascal? That's interesting. Do you have any sources? > I also suspect that GNU people chose C just because they didn't > trust in their ability to create a quality compiler in an observable pe= riod > of time and get it working on small machines. I've always thought they didn't really choose a language; they wanted to = clone Unix, and Unix was associated with C. But what do I know? --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu