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From: IsraelRT <israelrt@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Future with Ada
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 11:19:16 +1100
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On Sat, 01 Dec 2001 10:43:35 -0800, Richard Riehle
<richard@adaworks.com> wrote:
>In those same organizations, many programmers don't want to program in Ada
>because they see few commercial opportunities for that skill.    These programmers
>don't care whether Ada is a better language.  They care about the future of their
>career.   The companies don't care whether Ada is superior to C++.   They
>often admit it is.  They do care about being able to hire people who want to
>program in Ada.

The same could be said of Smalltalk, Ocaml, Haskell and any other
low-marketshare language.
That is the problem with  niche languages.

Live with it ( and the satisfaction of using a superior language ) or
use something more mainstream...