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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Software Engineering Ethics
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 11:17:37 +0100
Date: 2005-01-08T11:17:37+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hdls8bsu.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gemini.i9zcuv001h91002h4.nick.roberts@acm.org

* Nick Roberts:

> I'm pretty sure the most effective way to evangelise the world about
> the advantages of Ada (and about the problems with C++ and its
> siblings) is to demonstrate to software businesses -- and their
> customers -- that using Ada is cheaper (in the long term) and helps
> make the product better.

This assumes that the market wants better products and is interested
in long-term effects of investments.  I don't think such assumptions
are reasonable.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-08 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-08  0:48 Software Engineering Ethics Jeffrey Carter
2005-01-08  1:36 ` Cesar Rabak
2005-01-08  4:08 ` Nick Roberts
2005-01-08 10:17   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2005-01-08 18:14 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2005-01-09  4:08 ` Brian May
2005-01-09 10:24   ` Martin Krischik
2005-01-09 19:27   ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-01-09 21:55     ` David Botton
2005-01-10 21:00       ` Randy Brukardt
2005-01-10 22:38         ` Wes Groleau
2005-01-13 20:47           ` David Botton
2005-01-13 18:06         ` Nick Roberts
2005-02-27 16:57 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2005-02-28  8:15   ` Paul Colin Gloster
2005-02-27 17:00 ` Colin Paul Gloster
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