Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: blmblm@myrealbox.com Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: Popular Languages Date: 22 Jun 2012 16:41:03 GMT Organization: None Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <33790bd1-4980-4276-9c46-2183b43548b8@z2g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> <1bc14fa5-1a5d-41f9-a914-16af699151c0@x21g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> <8874e4f0-3acf-45c4-ab0c-c7eff0bd319e@d6g2000pbt.googlegroups.com> X-Trace: individual.net kTKMyZGI00p5hqE9MGyhXwDRA3fs98mTh30EBy5tsvrOfkUy8amwYzej5Hz/l7lG2c X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:BqysGjyoELGXZV1yaW3cw7Pf1Q4= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:1852 In article <8874e4f0-3acf-45c4-ab0c-c7eff0bd319e@d6g2000pbt.googlegroups.com>, gremnebulin wrote: > On Jun 20, 9:53 pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" > wrote: [ snip ] > > It was already named: Ada. You dismissed it as niche. I countered that > > popularity as well as whether the language would be used by potential > > employers do not matter. > > It matters if you are looking for employment. > I would also be interested in hearing why the large, verbose, > statically > and strongly typed language ADA is so much better than (for instance) Nitpick: Ada, not ADA. It's not an acronym. (The person who mentioned it got it right. Why the change .... ) > the large, verbose, statically > and strongly typed language Java. Is Java, often cited as a > similarly capable language to ADA, > so much worse that it damages thinking? -- B. L. Massingill ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.