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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,54c513170bafd693 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: Desirability of C++ Date: 2000/05/01 Message-ID: <390D4ABE.9E2B6A3F@online.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 617782351 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <01HW.B4BFC2820005B06B08A24140@news.pacbell.net> <20000204073443.24976.00001288@ng-ci1.aol.com> <87euk0$c93$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <01HW.B4C1346100072D2408A24140@news.pacbell.net> <949867976.281549@the-rowan.albatross.co.nz> <8766v93w66.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <38E8C81A.AA62CF4C@HiWAAY.net> <7EA1B852F5D4D8C6.26EEE9181C80F0DF.0161EA2D9C353253@lp.airnews.net> <01HW.B51C1B6E00F41C2D04BB51B0@news.pacbell.net> <38F796B2.A99A206A@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <38F7A27A.4F7729FA@raytheon.com> <8eclae$afj$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <4F706057FEE2A550.BF5FE19AE279EFCD.A55706B3F9D07043@lp.airnews.net> <8eiv08$820$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@online.no X-Trace: news1.online.no 957172408 130.67.235.163 (Mon, 01 May 2000 11:13:28 MET DST) Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 11:13:28 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard D Riehle wrote: > On top of that, the interpretation, by many, of former Assitant > Secretary of Defense Paige's memo, is that Ada is no longer a DoD > language. It is a stupid interpretation and completely wrongheaded, > but people will read what they want into it. Notice the plethora > of articles at the time of the publication of that memo that declared > that Ada was "dead." How can we blame military officers for mistakenly > thinking it is dead when they read that it is in popular magazines > such as Dr. Dobbs and Government Computing News. There seem to be nobody who want to write articles featuring Ada in either Dr. Dobbs and Government Computing News. Until someone does, it is going to look bad for Ada even though the companies involved may be making more money. The least the Ada industry association (or whatever it is called) could do if the market is in fact growing, is to put out an occational press release which shows that the market are growing. If I were a shareholder in any of the companies that would be the least I would expect. The ada industry looks very much like where I work (just a slight twist). When there are good times, nobody have the time to do anything about cost reduction. When the times are bad, they refuse to invest in cost reduction. However they will spend a lot of time telling everybody that they cannot afford to use any money. Some time they will spend more time arguing and telling how poor they are than it would take for the developers to implement the feature. Greetings,