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!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <412DCEF9.8020201@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <412d993e_2@news.tm.net.my> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:52:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.2.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1093521154 209.165.2.201 (Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:52:34 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:52:34 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3026 Date: 2004-08-26T11:52:34+00:00 List-Id: Here's the problem: We can say "That's not fair!" or "That's not right!" all we want, but reality can be a real bitch sometimes. If you don't "market" the language in some manner, nobody knows about it or has any reason to believe it is superior to what they *do* know about. Shoving the lamp under a bushel basket doesn't do much good. MDC Adrian Hoe wrote: > > People who chose a programming language based on its popularity like > advertisement and loud noisy announcement, are those have no technical > merit in evaluating the programming language. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat" -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987 ======================================================================