Re: why? US Army Ada software converted to C++?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

I have not been to Silly-con Valley in maybe a year or more & I never really
"lived" there - just rented space for extended periods of time. I'm told by
people I know that a basic sort of 3-bedroom house in an O.K. neighborhood
would cost a half-million bucks. I could buy a very large home on the
Intracoastal Waterway in a posh neighborhood around here for that kind of
money. Yet when I was out there, Cisco Systems was slamming down buildings
as fast as possible and you have to wonder why. Wouldn't it pay to move new
operations to some *other* part of the world that is as attractive or moreso
than the valley? I can see how if you've already built, you've got a major
investment you can't easily abandon, but if you want to build a whole slew
of new facilities, why not do it somewhere else?

Anyway, the trick for programmers was to earn the money in the Valley but
live somewhere else.

MDC
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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>
> That's pretty much my opinon of Silly Vally as well. An expensive house
here in
> Tulsa is one that goes for more than $150K. I'd have to make nearly that
in a
> year in salary to be able to even think about owning a house out there.
>
> I don't even think the *mayor* of Tulsa makes that much. :-)
>