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On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 3:42:24 PM UTC-6, an...@att.net wrote:
> The main problem is you have forgotten the golden rule the "Customer" or
> group that is paying for the program sets the rules. If they say they
> prefer non Ada then you should choose a language they like or they will
> simply use someone else and you out of a job.

This is true; but how many customers actually care about the implementation language/platform? Unless it's extremely specialized (ie micro-controllers) or a windows application [specifically], that is. 

> Because most will say if Microsoft does not support Ada, then we do not
> support Ada. And no matter how many reasons you can give will every change
> most people minds.

Microsoft *does* support Ada via its .NET platform... unless you want to argue that the "program in your preferred language" bullet-point touting .NET's advantages is false.