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From: Shayne Flint <shayne@ainslie.com.au>
Subject: Re: C++ Standardization (was: Once again,
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Date: 1996/10/21
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nasser@apldbio.com wrote:

> If a manager does not want to use Ada, let them.
> 
> If someone is not smart enough to see an advantage in using Ada,
> let someone smarter than them take advantage of this fact, and
> produce better software using Ada, which means they'll sell
> more software and make more money with less completion, since the
> end customer only cares about the quality of the product, not what
> language it was written in, let the free market and the free
> competition decide. (When I go buy a car, I only care that it is
> a good quality car, not HOW and what tools where used to build it).
> 
> If I want to open my own software company (as an example!) , and I
> believe Ada is the better choice language over C or C++, then I'll
> be very happy to see less people using Ada and more using C and C++,
> because this means I will have less competition for producing higher
> quality software, and if I believe that using C and C++ produces more
> problems in the software than when using Ada, then the more my
> competitions use C and C++, the better I'll be.
> 
> Just IMHO offcourse.
> 

I and other Ada users I know (and I suspect many organisations quietly
using Ada) have felt this way for a long time. We would be mad to go out
of our way to convince our competition to use Ada.

Ada IS a competitive advantage for many developers including me! 

Having said that, it is of course important to ensure that Ada
development tools continue to be developed and improved. This is, by the
way, going along very nicely - eg. ObjectAda, AppletMagic and Gnat.

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