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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-11 06:48:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40794C92.1090306@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 13:48:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.23.206 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1081691285 209.165.23.206 (Sun, 11 Apr 2004 06:48:05 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 06:48:05 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6978 Date: 2004-04-11T13:48:05+00:00 List-Id: Exactly. C, C++, Java, etc., are all firmly entrenched in many sectors and if you want to grab some of that work for yourself, you've got to do *something* that shows the average programmer and/or manager in that area that adopting Ada is going to get them some *instant* benefit in productivity. Otherwise, its just a big disruption of "business as usual" with maybe some potential payoff years down the line, but short-term nothing but heartache, pain, missed deadlines and project failures. MDC Wes Groleau wrote: > > The numbers are wrong, irrelevant, and bogus. > The point is that we Ada fans are so far out-numbered > that (as Marin has been insisting for ages) we have to do > something really good, not try to compete on the turf that > they have _already_ captured. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================