Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?

On Tuesday 23 January 2007 06:37, adaworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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My question is: how come Ada isn't more popular?

Ada suffered, in its early days, from a convergence of several
things. One is that the designers of the language did not anticipate
the impact of the personal computer and the democratization of
computing. There were other factors, as well.
[...]

Does the fact that there is no "public" operating system written in Ada is one
of this factor ?
I think about the closest link between the C language and the *nix systems.


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Ali
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