ok, this is horribly offtopic, but there are some things that I
cannot allow to pass without comment. Far from creating a stigma,
the DoD is the only reason Ada has ever been used for anything of
note. The reason it's not a standard anywhere else is its horrible,
baroque, repugnant syntax.
That said, I agree with the first point. It does come up in qb
(remember: historical anecdote -> askable!), so should probably be on
any such list.
Former VHDL programmer,
J.p.
--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, jeremycec <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> I know there can only be 10, but I thought there was at least one
> notable omission on the programming languages: Ada (and Ada95) -
> named for Countess Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, who
> programmed Charles Babbage's analytical engine and thus was
> considered the world's first programmer. Ada95 (the
object-oriented
> version of Ada) was the first programming language to become
> standardized (ANSI and ISO) *before* being released for public use.
> What a novel concept! Ada is also a strongly typed language and
> thus ideal for software engineering. Had it not been for its "DoD
> only" stigma, it could have become the de facto standard for
> programming. Oh well...
>
> Jeremy R.