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From: Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
Subject: Re: AIA Position on Ada
Date: 1996/08/24
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Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:

>However, we believe that the =B3doomsayers=B2 are wrong.  Ada is too good a 
>language for large embedded systems; the marketplace would not let it 
>die.

Agree. Look at the way the technically superior Betamax made the unreliable and 
costly VHS obsolete.

(I've been through 3 VHS Recorders, and spent many hundred bucks on maintenance. I 
also have a Betamax. It's had one service in 15 years - after the house got flooded, 
and it was in 6 inches of water for a week. It works like new.)