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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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<patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote in message 
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> What future is there ...

Not much in my opinion. People have never (in my lifetime, at least) had any 
interest in doing things well over doing things fast. Ada is about doing 
things well. In the current environment, not only doesn't want to do it 
well, they mostly just want to throw stuff at the wall until something 
sticks. (In my experience, the only things that stick the wall are cherry 
tomato seeds, and they had to be cleaned off the wall before going 
home...long story. ;-)

Ada has no chance of success in this environment.

But as I noted, it doesn't matter. The current approach of humanity will get 
us all killed off soon enough. In mean time, I at least want to continue 
doing things well. So Ada remains important to me. Life is too short to care 
about the idiotic masses -- they'll never come around until it's too late 
anyway.

                                           Randy.