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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Suitability of Ada as a general-purpose language
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:45:58 +0200
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:27:23 -0700 (PDT), Patrick wrote:

>> Being "market-oriented", and not a brilliant engineer,
>> 
>> never pick Ada.
> 
> I am self employed so I can choose whatever language I like and I think it
> makes good business sense. If you have to submit to stupid employers
> better learn javascript and PHP

Some of our customers indeed demand Delphi, which is a legacy language for
them. As a consequence they demand monstrous Borland C++ as well.

This or that way one have to learn many languages.

But of course, if you are free to choose there is no reason not to take
Ada.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de