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From: smosha@most.fw.hac.com (Stephen M O'Shaughnessy)
Subject: Re: AIA Position on Ada
Date: 1996/08/27
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In article <321f0f6d.0@red.interact.net.au>, aebrain@dynamite.com.au says...
>
>Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:
>
>>However, we believe that the =B3doomsayers=B2 are wrong.  Ada is too good a 
>>language for large embedded systems; the marketplace would not let it 
>>die.
>
>Agree. Look at the way the technically superior Betamax made the unreliable 
and 
>costly VHS obsolete.
>
>(I've been through 3 VHS Recorders, and spent many hundred bucks on 
maintenance. I 
>also have a Betamax. It's had one service in 15 years - after the house got 
flooded, 
>and it was in 6 inches of water for a week. It works like new.)
>
>
>
Beta died because Sony would not license the format.  Ada is free and will
live for ever.