[Info-vax] Safer programming languages (and walking :-) ), was: Re: 8-bit characters

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/14/2021 6:43 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 11/14/21 5:05 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> There is a move towards more safe languages for systems programming.
>>
>> The current fashion, Rust, has horrible syntax, and I have no confidence
>> that code written in it today will still compile on the Rust compilers
>> of 5 to 10 years from now, but its use is being driven by the desire
>> for using safer languages.
>>
>> When Rust falls out of fashion, it would be nice if whatever follows
>> Rust would address both of those problems.
> 
> I thought this is the problem Ada was created to fix?  :-)

It was.

But Ada did fall out of fashion.

There are probably many explanations for that, but my guess
is that the complexity of the language turned out to be a
problem.

Arne