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There are plenty of very successful languages that look nothing like the C family. I think the syntax of ADA has a different issue, which is that it- to me at l

There are plenty of very successful languages that look nothing like the C family. I think the syntax of ADA has a different issue, which is that it- to me at least- evokes languages that are considered old fashioned or out of date like BASIC/Fortran/COBOL. I'd be more than willing to give Ada a chance, but when I looked at code samples I definitely had to fight an automatic response of thinking it was something out of date based on how it looks.

kbenson 5y ago
> There are plenty of very successful languages that look nothing like the C family. It's not that there aren't successful languages and have a different look and feel, it's that there's pushback against them when they are targeted towards the niches C and C++ are already strong in. Obviously many languages exist and many have become popular, but certain niches are more resistant than others and sometimes it's for non-rational reasons. > I'd be more than willing to give Ada a chance, but when I looked at code samples I definitely had to fight an automatic response of thinking it was something out of date based on how it looks. That's part, but not all, of what I'm talking about. The style C follows is damn old itself, sometimes predating the languages you're thinking of as out of date.