Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jpl-devvax!poe!larryc From: larryc@poe.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Carroll) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How Ada is failing socially Message-ID: <1991Jun25.015918.17597@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 25 Jun 91 01:59:18 GMT Sender: usenet@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (For NNTP so rrn will be able to post) Distribution: comp.lang.ada Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab, AEG/FIST Lines: 4 Nntp-Posting-Host: poe And Ada is "failing" because C has been around a long time, so there's a much larger pool of programmers, thus more people writing tools, & more people as a market for those tools. (Which reminds me, I haven't seen all that many good debuggers for Ada.)