Nice list, incomplete though: - since a long time, nobody know (or care) what Tony Hoare said in 1980 about Ada, yet Ada isn't taking off. - GNAT is free, yet A

Nice list, incomplete though: - since a long time, nobody know (or care) what Tony Hoare said in 1980 about Ada, yet Ada isn't taking off. - GNAT is free, yet Ada isn't taking off. So? It's difficult to say but IMHO what he forgot is: the syntax. Ada was designed to be verbose, I think that programmers don't like verbose syntax.. Did someone tried to make a terser syntax for Ada? Elixyr seems to revive interest in Erlang, so..