On Sat, 3 May 2014, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> Progress is sometimes possible, but more offten not. You can design a
> new language that does things more or less right (Ada) and see it fade
> away into disuse, or extend C with all its problems (C++) and get a
> language that is widely accepted.

But progress will never come if we don't actually point out when something=
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is wrong.

BTW "Ada" (MIL-STD-1815A) never made it because the compilers cost a=20
fortune and they needed to be certified by the DoD in order to be used=20
(they owned the trademark). You had to keep your compilers up to date=20
(yearly) unless you got a special dispensation (because it would delay=20
a critical project) and again that cost more money.

BTW BTW isn't Python (a new language that does things more or less right)=20
collecting a big user base - yourself included if I'm not mistaken :-)

Regards
Sergio Masci
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