From: Martin Coxall <pseudo.meta@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T17:32:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Rails

> Ada, on the other hand, was intended to be a language for managing  
> large
> projects. I think it was a beautiful design, as far as I know it is
> still in use today, and there is in fact an open source compiler.
>
> So ... one out of two ain't bad, eh?
>

Ada never took off outside defence and aerospace industries, so it's  
now intrinsically associated with them. It's a bit of a bondage-and- 
discipline language, all told. You spend as much time satisfying the  
compiler's neuroses as you do writing good code.

A high-functioning-autistic object-pascal.

Also, it has been steadily losing ground to Java.

Martin