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From: softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit   addressing and OOP
Date: 25 Apr 2003 10:28:18 -0700
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Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message news:<3EA87284.59CD9FA4@adaworks.com>...
> soft-eng wrote:
> 
> > If Ada projects had actually succeeded in producing good quality
> > software, it would have been everywhere today.
> 
> That is the silliest thing you have said so far.
> 
>       1)  Ada projects have succeeded in producing many millions
>            of lines of quality software.
> 
>       2)  It is no more difficult to learn to write programs in Ada than
>            it is in any other language.   I know this from experience,
> 
>       3) The fact that something is available in abundance has no relationship
>            to its inherent quality.   For example, many low quality fast-food
>            purveyors have managed to dominate the marketplace by distracting
>            customers with all kinds of gimmicks that have nothing to do with
>            the quality of their food.
> 
>        4) I suspect your knowledge about Ada is a little out-of-date.  This tends
>            to make your observations somewhat irrelevant.
> 
> Richard Riehle

*Any* observations about Ada, in 2003, are somewhat irrelevant :-)
But if we didn't want to discuss irrelevancies, we wouldn't
subscribe to a .advocay group, would we?