Re: Alsys, how insignificant is 18,000?

[emery@mitre-bedford.arpa (David Emery)]

>People are choosing C++ technology over Ada, with their own money (and
>fault in your analogy), because for 90% of their missions, C++ is more
>cost effective than Ada (given the supply of programmers, tools,
>libraries, books that are available).

I'd like to see some studies demonstrating:
	1.  People make these decisions based on cost-effectiveness,
	    or any other rational process, and
	2.  C++ _is_ more cost-effective than Ada, C, FORTRAN, BLISS,
	    or any other language.

My belief is that choice of language is dictated more by perceived
popularity than any technical factor.

				dave