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Re:Introduction to Ada by grawprog on Thursday September 03, 2020 @12:16AM (#24360754)
It's always had a strange super elite, if you use ada you must mean serious business kind of vibe to it.

I guess it's mostly the applications its used in, but the language itself has this strict rigidity to it.

It's like the marines or special forces of programming languages or something.

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Re:Introduction to Ada by non-entity on Thursday September 03, 2020 @01:39AM (#24361067)
Outside the unpopular syntax, I've wondered if the goverment / DoD association has scared people away.
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