On Friday 11 September 2015 22:35:00 Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 11/09/2015 03:19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 10 September 2015 20:33:03 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:04:05 -0700 (PDT), rurpy--- via Python-list > >> > >> <python-list@python.org> declaimed the following: > >>> I also doubt there were more programming languages around in the > >>> 1970s than now, on the grounds that there were far fewer people > >>> capable of writing a compiler or interpreter in those days, and > >>> there were far fewer tools to help, or easily accessible knowledge > >>> about how to do do it. > >> > >> Yet there were enough assorted semi-specialized languages in use > >> on military programs to induce the DoD to run the competition for a > >> singular language -- which became Ada. > > > > And which should be noted that it has been a rather spectacular > > failure in the commercial market. Does that mean that those who can > > code in Ada are working only for the military's suppliers, and > > because they are a scarce commodity, writing their own paycheck? I > > don't know, other than no one is publically bragging about it. > > > >> -- > >> Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > >> wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Ada took over from CORAL in the UK, at least in military projects. It > was also used in the aircraft industry. My old work mates tell me that > its completely died a death, to be replaced by C++. Someone please > remind me never to fly again. > Oh my gawd. C++ in a airplane autopilot? Now that's scarey. And I was just in one, three each way actually, round trip halfway across the country, last December.
> -- > My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask > what you can do for our language. > > Mark Lawrence Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
