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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: 26 Apr 2003 07:59:17 -0700
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Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message news:<3EA9E194.BAC2A2B6@adaworks.com>...
> soft-eng wrote:
> 
> > So you are saying the Ada projects that succeeded were secret,
> > and the ones that were not secret did not succeed?
> 
> Go to www.adaic.org.   There are plenty of case histories
> of Ada projects that succeeded.    This includes a large

Amazingly enough, I don't think there are any such sites for
C, C++, Java...

Instead, when you read my message and typed a respnse in your
newsreader, you provided testimony that these languages have been
used by actual people to provide actually useful software.

You may claim that these were all stupid people who couldn't
chose the right language for the tool, couldn't understand
Ada, or didn't realize they could have done a better job in Ada.

But given that Ada was not only available, but actively
supported by HUGE amounts of tax money, I may choose
to believe you are arguing from nothing but personal biases.