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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by mrkeen on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:06PM (#23716165)
I believe Ada was supposed to be a better Pascal in some sense.

But I don't know why Ada didn't take off either.

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by froh on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:25PM (#23716372)
The compilers were dead slow.

Ada was ahead of c++ by years, but it was unusably slow in compile debug cycles compared to c++.

http://archive.adaic.com/intro/ada-vs-c/ada-vs-c.html

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by KineticLensman on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:44PM (#23716561)
> The compilers were dead slow.

And also expensive.

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by zeroc8 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:44PM (#23717193)
Nvidia recently chose Spark/Ada for some of their safety critical software.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/02/05/adacore-secure-auto...

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by user5994461 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:17PM (#23716281)
It's still used in defense and aerospace. Last talking to people who were making inertial navigation units (the movement sensors like in your phone but much better and for a plane), all the software was done Ada, millions of lines of Ada.
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