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by numeromancer 485 days ago
It failed to catch on outside the defense industry because that is where is started. It was long sneered at as a "language designed by committee".

In one programming class, in college, we used a text-book called "Oh my, Modula 3!". On the back they explained the title, saying "better 'Oh my, Modula 3!' than 'Oh no, Ada!'".
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timbit42 484 days ago
You mean, "Oh My! Modula-2!", not 3.

The title of that book was chosen as a reference to a previous book titled, "Oh! Pascal!".

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tombert 485 days ago
Yeah, people have explained to me here before.

It's just too bad, because Ada looks like a language that should have gotten more popular. I was playing with some of the concurrency constructs built into it, and it was fairly pleasant, and it makes me think about the "what if?" universe where it caught on instead of C++ dominating the 90's and 2000's.

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