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tmoran@acm.org wrote:

  >>Job postings try to look for very specific skills
  >>
  >   The necessary implication being that the design has already been
  > frozen - "we will be using this language, that database, this kind
  > of UI, ...".
  >   I read an interesting essay recently that pointed out that color TV,
  > UHF, and cable were all technically feasible in 1948 when TVs were
in less
  > than 1% of American households.  But we had three black and white VHF
  > network channels for a very long time because of industry
structure&power
  > reasons.  I suppose there were lots of job postings for B/W VHF tuner
  > designers, and few for people who knew UHF etc.
  >


Another identical twin - Betamax vs. VHS. Betamax (Ada) was more
expensive although it had better playback quality than VHS (C/C++)
which was cheaper. It was the price that put VHS into every living
rooms. Today, some professionals (high-end) still use Betamax.

If there were Turbo Ada in the mid/late 80's, Ada could have been a
mainstream programming language today. If there were M$ Visual Ada,

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