Re: annual "crap-for-brains software" posting

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In article <9305111124.AA08521@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>, SAHARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU writes
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*Ted Holden writes:
*Having to spend ten times the going rate in both money and time for everything
*you ever do will prevent you from doing that.  That's a hell of a good reason
*for deep-sixing Ada.
*Ted Holden
*HTE

*  Well I guess its time for my annual "crap-for-brains software" posting
*again.  Each of the many times each workday that the commercial
*software in my office fails I think of these postings that scream
*"I want cheap software like Microsoft etc. produce"....

How about "I NEED cheap software, because the money for extravagences like
Ada simply isn't going to be there much longer!"?  That's called dealing
with reality.  A good example of the principal in practice is the escort
carrier of WW-II.  Using fleet carriers for all carrier duties in the war
would have simply cost too much.

And, if you don't like Microsoft, there are a number of more serious groups
out there, including Borland, Lotus, Novell, and lots of others.  Each markets
wonderous software products which, were they to be re-engineered/written in
Ada, would begin to function about as well as STANFINS-R, and be off the 
market in about two months.  The only thing I like about MicroSoft is the
fact that it is in this country and not Japan.


-- 
Ted Holden
HTE