Re: Ada The Best Language?

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

I don't know about "wrong" - but I think most of us that frequent this group
would contend that language-adoption-decisions are frequently (if not
mostly) made for reasons other than technical merit and/or economic
rationality.

I've argued here in the past about the weaknesses Ada has in terms of
economic rationality - mostly trying to observe where it is that other
languages have an edge that is preventing Ada from being adopted with the
hope that it encourages developers to fill those gaps. I think there *are*
cases where the rejection of Ada is a rational decision based on economics
or (occasionally) technical merit.

Still, I think that language decisions become highly emotional things with
the techies wanting to opt for the "familiar" (high comfort factor) and
management wanting to opt for what has worked before (risk aversion). I'd
suspect a large number of participants here would agree.

MDC
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"Mark Lundquist" <up.yerz@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I think most participants in this ng would say that "the rest of the
world"
> is simply wrong, not necessarily stupid.
>