From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:42:03 +0200 Message-ID: <3g75cduep9ff$.1i0zpzd3fzjg9$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <413e2fbd$0$30586$626a14ce@news.free.fr> <1371289.WCcgO7lass@linux1.krischik.com> <1094926196.802462@yasure> <4144BDB6.80100@noplace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 0VrEzV7kjpP+ZwaH28L09wCmEm3cw5OgXx7pu+2VWkBrUDGYQ= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3660 Date: 2004-09-13T09:42:03+02:00 List-Id: On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:21:16 GMT, Marin David Condic wrote: > A lesson that ought not go lost on those who wish Ada greater success. > Even a flawed and imperfect language can have great success if the > economics are right. But what is the goal, perfection or commercial success? Does one exclude other? Something should be badly wrong with our world, if so... > There may be droves of Ada-haters or Ada-ignorers > out there, but if Ada has overwhelming economic advantage, the > bean-counters will "tune them up" and get them to "think right" on the > subject. So we ought to pay a little less attention to Ada's technical > superiority and more to making it economically superior. Would you like such language? (:-)) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de