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: 2004-04-12 04:25:39 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: <407A7CB0.8010406@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: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 11:25:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.2.165 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1081769139 209.165.2.165 (Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:25:39 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:25:39 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7000 Date: 2004-04-12T11:25:39+00:00 List-Id: It might be true, but it depends on that ellusive "All Other Things Being Equal" quality. That is never the case in the real world. When the OS is written in C, the GUI library is in C, the database is in C, bindings to all relevant other work are in C, the programmers are all trained up in C and thousands of books are out there in C, the playing field is uneven. If you want to win, you've got to tilt the playing field more in your direction. MDC chris wrote: > Wes Groleau wrote: > >> If you have enough money to pay 100 programmers, >> then 100 Ada programmers are going to get more >> accomplished than 100 C programmers. > > > Prove it. -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================