I'm disagreeing with the assertion that Ada looks like COBOL. You may or may not agree with that statement, but you made it.
> This filtering process happens in the crudest possible way, based more on feelings and hearsay than on verified facts
And that's why people should stop making statements like:
>>> Ada, unfortunately, looks cobol-like, so someone who knows nothing automatically assumes a ton of bureaucracy. Run away if you want work done.
Without much stronger caveats to clarify that it is not a correct impression. Without a strong statement clarifying that it's only an impression (based on the most superficial of analyses) and not the reality, people will read comments like yours (and others in threads like this one) and never go any further to realize that they're false, and end up repeating them.
In an Ada thread just a few weeks back someone wrote COBOL-ish code claiming it was Ada code. It was a math-y example like the GCD code above, and clearly wouldn't work if you had even a passing familiarity with Ada. But it was written in such strong terms that it gave the impression the author was competent when they were really ignorant.
> If you look at rust, the work done by Mozilla and people like e.g. Steve Klabnik to put the language on the map is enourmously valuable. With code examples, blog post, fixing real world pain points, answering questions, .... It took years but they did it. If Ada had a group of people and a bigname organization, all doing this work, it would be a completely different story.
> This filtering process happens in the crudest possible way, based more on feelings and hearsay than on verified facts
And that's why people should stop making statements like:
>>> Ada, unfortunately, looks cobol-like, so someone who knows nothing automatically assumes a ton of bureaucracy. Run away if you want work done.
Without much stronger caveats to clarify that it is not a correct impression. Without a strong statement clarifying that it's only an impression (based on the most superficial of analyses) and not the reality, people will read comments like yours (and others in threads like this one) and never go any further to realize that they're false, and end up repeating them.
In an Ada thread just a few weeks back someone wrote COBOL-ish code claiming it was Ada code. It was a math-y example like the GCD code above, and clearly wouldn't work if you had even a passing familiarity with Ada. But it was written in such strong terms that it gave the impression the author was competent when they were really ignorant.
> If you look at rust, the work done by Mozilla and people like e.g. Steve Klabnik to put the language on the map is enourmously valuable. With code examples, blog post, fixing real world pain points, answering questions, .... It took years but they did it. If Ada had a group of people and a bigname organization, all doing this work, it would be a completely different story.
AdaCore has actually done a lot of the same.
http://learn.adacore.com - really good learning resources, freely available
https://blog.adacore.com - active blog describing various Ada-based projects as well as developments in SPARK and Ada.
And as an answer to things like Cargo there's now Alire:
https://alire.ada.dev
Both comp.lang.ada and r/ada are pretty active.