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In article <4fda7q$gk6@wariat.wariat.org>, enikitin@junior.wariat.org 

>I could have asked a similar question on any of the comp.lang
>newsgroups. I must say I was not surprised by the responses - 
>things were pretty much as I expected. I would also include the
>following as another reason why a person would choose NOT to
>learn a particular language.
>        
>        5) Can't get a job programming in that language.
>

You could as well just ignore the first 4 and leave this one.

For people who are interested in programming languages for the sake
of just programming languages, we can talk all day long how much Ada
is better than C/C++, but for the other 99% of the people, who leave
colleges and want to get a job to pay the rent, or who have family to
support, they see the market is taken over by C++, and see security 
in working/learning C++ (even though they might know it is not as good
as Ada) so that is what they will learn and use.

Ada remindes sometimes of mathematics.

Many math lovers who can not get a job doing mathematics for living
(becuase there is none out there, have you seen how many PhD math folks 
are out of work?, I've seen people who have PhD in theortical mathematics 
are sitting down hacking GUI/C code ), these math people take another job 
to live on, and when  they go home at night they can do mathematics for 
fun all night long and on weekend untill it is monday again and time to
go work to pay the rent..

just my 2 and half cents worth ..

Nasser