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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:43:23 GMT
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In article <87itnn7lfi.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>,
  Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>
> >>> Worse! Research firms like Gartner Group and its peers
classify Ada as a
> >>> "mature" language "not recommended" for new projects. . .
>
> > > And how are the languages called which are recommended
for new
> > > projects?  "Evolving"?
> >
> > The proper terminology is:
> >
> > 	Immature
>
> That's a bit too negative, isn't it?  "Evolving" sounds much
> nicer and full of possibilites


No, that's not supportable. Mature and immature are one
dimension, evolving and static are another. All four
possibilities are there. If something is not mature, it is
immature. Sometimes maturity may come with a lack of
flexibility to evolve, but that is not necessarily the
case at all.


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