From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-09 12:00:24 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do? Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 19:51:54 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <93fq4o$6j7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <3A4F5A4A.9ABA2C4F@chicagonet.net> <3A4F759E.A7D63F3F@netwood.net> <3A50ABDF.3A8F6C0D@acm.org> <92qdnn$jfg$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3A50C371.8B7B871@home.com> <3A51EC04.91353CE7@uol.com.br> <3A529C97.2CA4777F@home.com> <3A53CB9E.EA7CF86C@uol.com.br> <3A5466DE.811D43A5@acm.org> <932aol$ikc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <932mi6$r2k$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <9343b1$3g5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <934iuf$eqv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <937kc7$ssq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93c0e9$4u6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93e33l$tfu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93ekmo$a14$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93f73f$mt1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93fnao$49u$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Jan 09 19:51:54 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x61.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3829 Date: 2001-01-09T19:51:54+00:00 List-Id: In article <93fnao$49u$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, dmitry6243@my-deja.com wrote: > It must be as insolent as "Ada is an extension of > C++ especially designed for Windows", then it works. Well I don't think we will be hiring you for Ada awareness advertising, despite your charming certainty that you know the true way to make Ada popular :-) > But everybody is saying that C++ is for anything. There is no > place for correctness in market wars. Promoting languages is not easy. You should study the IBM experience with PL/1, and also the failure of Java on Windows as examples. The former is ancient history, the latter is ancient history. There is no magic to explain why a language is successful, it really depends on being in the right place at the right time with an implementation that presents the right environment for the tasks at hand. After all remember that Visual Basic is vastly more successful than C or C++ on the PC! Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/