Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics (COBOL Popularity)

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

I might add that it isn't just by being able to point at successful 
projects in Ada. Certainly through time, we've had any number of 
successful projects implemented in Ada. It should be obvious to anyone 
willing to look that Ada *can* be successfully employed. The real trick 
here is to make projects that are a *commercial* success - invent 
something that uses Ada and sell it successfully - because it is only 
through some kind of commercial success that jobs are created, revenues 
to compiler vendors are created, universities are encouraged to teach 
Ada, etc. Unless it generates more revenues than expenses, what you've 
got is a hobby and hobbyist languages don't tend to fare well over the 
long run.

MDC


Richard Riehle wrote:
> 
> Now that Ada must be a choice rather than fiat, we have the opportunity
> to persuade people to use it rather than mandate its use.  The only way
> we can do that is through example.  Those who believe it is a superior
> approach to software development need to prove it by building better
> software with it.   Then they can announce their success with Ada. There
> is no other avenue for Ada's long-term success.  No amount of preaching,
> complaining about someone else's stupidity,  or managerial incompetence
> will garner a single iota of success.  Only success will lead to success.
> Prove
> Ada by its fruits, not through declamation and oratory.
> 
> Richard Riehle
> 
> 
> 


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