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From: larryc@poe.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: How Ada is failing socially
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Date: 25 Jun 91 01:29:22 GMT
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Ada is failing (or not succeeding as fast as some other languages) because
compilers for it are much more expensive than those for other languages.  C
(& now C++) is so popular because C compilers were free or inexpensive during
the last half of the 70's & most of the 80's.  The same has been true of C++
-> C interpreters & now C++ compilers for the last few years.