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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: 11 Aug 2004 23:54:28 -0500
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In article <2nutq5F4sdqqU1@uni-berlin.de>, "Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com> writes:
> "Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:1092233689.719755@master.nyc.kbcfp.com...
>> Chris Humphries wrote:
>> >    Would like to open up the newsgroup for discussion of why
>> >  ADA is not as popular as (of now me learning it) to it is
>> >  not as popular as other languages (Perl, Java, C++, C#, C).
>>
>> Aagh! Run for your lives! :-)
> 
> Oh, what the hell...   :-)
> 
> My take on why the Ada language itself (regardless of availability of tools
> and libraries and such) isn't as popular among programmers as other
> languages:
> 
> Every programmer thinks they're better than average--half of them are wrong.
> 
> Most programmers think they're much better than average--most are not.

That is a good concept.  I think a more terse presentation would be:

	Disuse of Ada is because it appeals only to humble programmers.