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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Software Engineering Ethics
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 11:17:37 +0100
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* 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.