Ada's main popularity problem appears to me to be due to its advantages not being immediately obvious when writing small programs. For example, comparing a sma

Ada's main popularity problem appears to me to be due to its advantages not being immediately obvious when writing small programs. For example, comparing a small program written in C and Ada the Ada version would appear extremely verbose to most C programmers. Ada's advantages start to really show when you deal with much larger pieces of software; what appears verbose or overly-strict at a smaller scale provides valuable assistance when dealing with large codebases. Unfortunately, many seem to dismiss Ada after doing little more than looking at small code examples and complaining about verbosity...