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: 103376,37c1639cf6a3bbba X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Jerry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A scary story from the real world. Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:03:13 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1194735793.905395.151810@v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com> References: <0Q0Zi.409$CT3.318@newsfet01.ams> <1194641160.406321.39310@t8g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.171.118.172 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1194735794 8234 127.0.0.1 (10 Nov 2007 23:03:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:03:14 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/522+ (KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/522) OmniWeb/v613.0.93354,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.171.118.172; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18257 Date: 2007-11-10T15:03:13-08:00 List-Id: > I mentioned Ada in connection to the Microsoft talk and the comment from > the Microsoft person was something along the lines > Ada is never going to make it and I and don't believe in it. > I wont quite since i don't remember the exact worthing. > > /Per Assuming your paraphrasing is mostly accurate, the Microsoft response is _partly_ nonsensical. "Ada is never going to make it:" All you (Microsoft) have to do is to start using it. "Making it" is a non-issue. "...I don't believe in it." Aha--now we're getting somewhere. Language choice is apparently like religion, based on a belief system. People's choice of religion is almost always the religion in which they were born into. It must be the same for programming languages. But religion is inherently belief-based whereas programmers take pride in being logical and rational. So why _do_ programmers act as though language choice is a belief system? I wish some smart psychologist would do research on the propagation over decades of crappy languages as the first choice of most programmers. Jerry