Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

I'd question that statistic. "Developed" as in "Developed today on new 
program starts?" or "Developed" as in "Historically since the beginning 
of computer languages, more programs have been developed in..." Guess it 
depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is... ;-)

I'd also disagree with characterizing Cobol as a "failure" when in its 
day it succeeded in capturing nearly *all* of the business programming 
market. Did Ada capture nearly *all* of the embedded programming market? 
I like Ada, but if the definition of "success" is "achieving the stated 
goal" and the original stated goal of Ada was to address the embedded 
market, someone could make a fair case that capturing less than 1% of 
that market might just qualify as a "failure" by a reasonably objective 
standard. Or can anyone/anything be a success just by setting the bar 
low enough?

MDC

Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> 
> 
> Right. More SW is developed in COBOL than any other language.
> 
> "COBOL? Not *that* dead, old failure!"
> 


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