From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: munck@Mill-Creek-Systems.com (Bob Munck) Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful? Date: 1998/08/13 Message-ID: <35d35136.20464336@news.mindspring.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 380874663 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6qg3on$kjq$2@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> <6qrdn4$4ac@drn.newsguy.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises X-Server-Date: 13 Aug 1998 21:02:00 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-08-13T21:02:00+00:00 List-Id: On 12 Aug 1998 20:56:25 GMT, eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) wrote: > Hmmm. Have you ever tried doing it right the first time? Is the >real problem with Ada that there are too few of us old farts in the >programming business? Exactamundo! And the reasons for THAT is that management does not recognize the established fact that one programmer may be ten times better than another. After all, managers don't have such a wide range. So no one will hire me to write Ada code at $100/hour when they can get four kids at $25/hour each who will take twice as long to write buggier, less maintainable code in Java. (Fortunately, they will hire me to do other things.) Bob Munck Haymarket, VA