Re: AIA Position on Ada

[Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>]

bohn@rational.com wrote:
> 
> > >However, we believe that the doomsayers 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.

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> Also, it's pretty stupid to compare recorders to a programming language.

Wouldn't be the first time I've done something Thick, won't be the last.
But disagree: a reasonable analogy, showing that superior marketing, or
even
just availability of more titles sooner, has, in the past, beaten a
superior
technical solution. The situation vis-a-vis Ada should be obvious to any
Rational person.

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