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!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4144BDB6.80100@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> <413e2fbd$0$30586$626a14ce@news.free.fr> <1371289.WCcgO7lass@linux1.krischik.com> <1094926196.802462@yasure> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:21:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.4.133 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1095024076 209.165.4.133 (Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:21:16 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:21:16 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3636 Date: 2004-09-12T21:21:16+00:00 List-Id: 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. 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. MDC Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > There were _many_ other languages. What distinguished C was economic, > drawn not out of generosity but out of US Federal restrictions on the > activities of AT&T subsidiary Bell Labs. -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================