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I've recently been curious why Ada isn't more popular in industry and academia beyond its niches in avionics and defense. Seems close in speed & memory usage to
by aklein 15y ago
I've recently been curious why Ada isn't more popular in industry and academia beyond its niches in avionics and defense. Seems close in speed & memory usage to C/C++, has good GNU tools, and claims resiliance to the pitfalls of C.
- FraaJad 15y agobecause "C" was invented by geeks and Ada was brought into existence by "The Man" and geeks are as dogmatic as the rest of humanity when it comes to changing their beliefs even when they proven to be wrong.
- aninteger 15y agoBefore my university transformed into a Java school it was an Ada school. From what I heard the compilers for Ada in the early 90s were extremely slow.
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- pnathan 15y agoADA is a stereotypical non-hacker language. It was invented by a DOD committee & requires a good deal of 'extra' fluff to write a program. Also, as I recall, to be a certified ADA-compliant compiler requires having a ton of libraries.
- msbarnett 15y agoAda (not ADA) was largely the product of one man, Jean Ichbiah. The notion that it's some kind of commitee-created monstrosity seems largely to have come from ESR's wildly inaccurate writeup of it in the Hacker's Dictionary. It's actually a fairly small and nice language. The object oriented extensions didn't follow the "standard" Java "." syntax, though, which probably hurt Ada 95's uptake more than it should have.