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From: "Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 27 Mar 2005 06:38:30 -0800
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Martin Krischik wrote:

[ ... ]

> > What I find telling is that somebody is so desparate to find
> > _anything_ to favor their position that they'll read the order
> > of strings in a listbox as really meaning something --
> >especially when they're apparently just in alphabetical order!
>
> No, I was making a different point here. You are right: they are
> alphabetical and I have overlooked that. But the important part of my
> question was: but why didn't marketing use an alphabetical order when
> writing the web side?

Look at it from their perspective for a moment: why would they?

> So my point stands: marketing effort or perhaps "coolness" has more
> to influence then actual technical facts. Which I find sad, but is
> true for as long I can think back for all sorts of technologies.

Marketing people generally think none of this stuff is even sligtly
"cool" or anything like it. They are influenced very strongly by facts,
but under the circumstances, the facts they care about almost certainly
come from their accounting department. IOW, they emphasize C over Ada
not because they think it's cool but because it makes money.

--
    Later,
    Jerry.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination.