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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit  
 addressing and OOP
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:25:56 -0700
Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering
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soft-eng wrote:

> If Ada projects had actually succeeded in producing good quality
> software, it would have been everywhere today.

That is the silliest thing you have said so far.

      1)  Ada projects have succeeded in producing many millions
           of lines of quality software.

      2)  It is no more difficult to learn to write programs in Ada than
           it is in any other language.   I know this from experience,

      3) The fact that something is available in abundance has no relationship
           to its inherent quality.   For example, many low quality fast-food
           purveyors have managed to dominate the marketplace by distracting
           customers with all kinds of gimmicks that have nothing to do with
           the quality of their food.

       4) I suspect your knowledge about Ada is a little out-of-date.  This tends
           to make your observations somewhat irrelevant.

Richard Riehle