From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea92c0e5255811d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-09 19:22:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Way OT: Adam Smith and Software Markets References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.234.13.56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1047266532 12.234.13.56 (Mon, 10 Mar 2003 03:22:12 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 03:22:12 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 03:22:12 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35107 Date: 2003-03-10T03:22:12+00:00 List-Id: > > "C is for Vulcans, Ada is for Humans"? > > ... and Ferengis use Visual Basic. I can picture the ad: Two pictures with at the top with captions. One shows a dozen Vulcan-looking programmers at clean desks, manuals neatly stored, prettily indented, readable Ada code on their CRTS, caption "The programmers you wish you had". The other picture shows three "hot-shot" stereotype disheveled programmers at messy desks, one under the desk sleeping, another being distracted by a poster of an anatomically improbable female video game figure, and the third with head drooping, hand holding a can of Jolt. All three CRTs showing messy looking code with lots of {[:?( etc. Caption "The programmers you have". Under the two pictures the text says "Let Ada help you get correct, comprehensible code from merely human programmers." Then some testimonials: A citation of the error rates from the recent Spark Crosstalk article, something about productivity from the old Rational study (or Pratt & Whitney?), etc.