Re: "That's the way the market is going"

["Ed Falis" <falis@ma.aonix.com>]

 Marc A. Criley wrote in article <5j12pb$ck6$1@venus.keystonenet.com>...
>Advocates of dropping Ada and moving to C++ often cite "That's the way
the
>market is going" as sufficient reason to do so, at least where I'm
working.
>How does one effectively rebut that?  These individuals concede the
technical
>superiority of Ada, and that there are life cycle benefits to Ada,
especially
>on weapon control systems, i.e., warfighting systems.  Yet, because the
market
>is going to C++, that is sufficient cause for us to now do the same.
>
>It's very frustrating, especially as the project I'm leading is quite
>effectively demonstrating the capability, productivity, and effectiveness
>of Ada (and this is still Ada 83!).
>
>But Ada is not where the market is going...


Except that it seems that a fair part of the market is jumping off the C++
wagon to the more Ada-like Java wagon even as these guys are trying to go
to C++.

Ah the emporer's new clothes!