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    Comment #46191064

    But Ada had for a number of years a mandate to require its usage [0]. That should have been an extreme competitive advantage. And even then, C++ is still used these days for some U…

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    Comment #46190996

    How do you define a better programming language, how do you judge whether one programming language is better than another, and how do you prevent corruption and cartels from taking…

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    Comment #46190866

    Yet that was not any of my arguments. It, ironically, applies more to the argument you made in your previous post. A better argument would have been based on statistics. But that m…

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    Comment #46190749

    > Ada and especially Spark makes it a whole lot easier to produce correct software. Relative to what? There are formal verification tools for other languages. I have heard Ada/SPAR…

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    Comment #46190668

    > It seems to me that the software field overall has become more open to a wider variety of languages and concepts, and knowing Ada wouldn't be perceived as widely as career pidgeo…