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: 103376,5faad1722103f6a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.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: <40B8DC0D.7020301@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: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <90Stc.15309$be.3117@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <40b86431$0$186$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> <40B888E0.5040707@noplace.com> <40B8C86A.3050302@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 18:53:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.24.143 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1085856812 209.165.24.143 (Sat, 29 May 2004 11:53:32 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 11:53:32 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:917 Date: 2004-05-29T18:53:32+00:00 List-Id: That's fair enough - if the customer wants something in particular, you can't sell them something else. But I'll reiterate: If Ada is so great and builds such superior systems, then why aren't the Ada advocates out there getting busy building some end-product that they should obviously be able to do at a better cost basis & thus turn superior profitability? If Boeing or Lockmart or Honeywell or whoever doesn't want to build a particular whozits that goes into an airplane by using Ada and that it is stupid, foolish, costly, error-prone, etc. to do it in anything else, then it ought to be a *prime* opportunity to make buckets full of cash by starting a company to produce the lower cost, higher quality whozits using Ada. It costs too much to get into the whozits making business? O.K. Let's find some doohickey that can be built without a billion dollars of venture capital and go out and to that in Ada. If Ada is that much better, the doohickey ought to come out significantly cheaper than its nearest competitor. MDC Wes Groleau wrote: > > Maybe. But I'm aware of defense bids that offered Java > or a particular O.S. _because_ the bidder was aware that > the contracts would be awarded by boneheads who had let > the general culture persuade them that Java or that O.S. > was the way to go and that Ada or Unix was obsolete. > -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================