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!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-stoc.telia.net!news-stoa.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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 01:29:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1092792540 217.209.116.179 (Wed, 18 Aug 2004 03:29:00 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 03:29:00 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2796 Date: 2004-08-18T01:29:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > "Kevin Cline" wrote in message > news:e749549b.0408171554.2f9c48b4@posting.google.com... >=20 >>I don't your guru got it quite right. Ada failed because most >>programmers who tried it found Ada programming to be relative less >>productive than programming in other available languages. Ada never >>attracted a large enough base of motivated users to develop the >>libraries and IDEs that would make it easy to use. >=20 > I wonder why you think Ada is less productive than other > available languages. Is it the static typing? Is the ability > to define one's own types? Is it the syntax? Is it the way > the ALRM is written? The way I read the part of Kevin's post that you quoted, he said it's=20 because of lack of libraries and IDEs. --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu