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Date: 14 May 93 16:50:44 GMT
From: emery@mitre-bedford.arpa  (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Alsys, how insignificant is 18,000?
Message-ID: <EMERY.93May14115044@goldfinger.mitre.org>
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>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