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All but one of these are Wirthian languages. They all had overhead for their time period, and many of them were academic rather than pragmatic (consequently bec

All but one of these are Wirthian languages. They all had overhead for their time period, and many of them were academic rather than pragmatic (consequently becoming influential for language designers). Ada? You're trying too hard. It used to be a government standard and wasn't ignored in the least (see: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html)... much to a lot of people's chagrin. It's widely regarded as an example of a monster language, but it is still absolutely used where the safety is critical.

pjmlp 12y ago
> They all had overhead for their time period, and many of them were academic rather than pragmatic What overhead? The one spread by C crowed without experience in the said languages? I used a few commercial compilers for those languages. They were quite comparable in terms of generated code quality to C compilers of the same generation, back in the day. C was also a research language until AT&T made the code available. > It's widely regarded as an example of a monster language, but it is still absolutely used where the safety is critical. Actually, I would dare to say that Ada 2012 is smaller than C++14. Its use has increased in Europe thanks to what is being discussed here, namely the amount of money lost in security issues thanks to the industry adoption of C due to its relation to UNIX. I included Ada in the list, because most developers aren't aware that it still exists and is being used. Or that GNAT is just one of many compilers that are still available.