One of the worst UI ever

Posted Jan 28, 2026 16:22 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: One of the worst UI ever by Heretic_Blacksheep
Parent article: A critical GnuPG security update

Ada's major fault back in 1999 (when I looked at it for work purposes) was the lack of a decent, Free (or even cheap) compiler. GNAT didn't become a decent Ada compiler until 2004 or so.

It was literally priced out of the market at the time - Keil's C compiler for Infineon C16x, while awful, was the same price for a company-wide licence as the cheapest Ada compiler I could find, and that would have been an add-on to VxWorks.