From: bohn@rational.com
Subject: Re: AIA Position on Ada
Date: 1996/08/26
Date: 1996-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <NEWTNews.841094038.16412.tbohn@bohn_pc.ppp.rational.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 321f0f6d.0@red.interact.net.au
> >However, we believe that the doomsayers 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.)
Big deal. I've had one VHS for the last 11 years and serviced it once. If
you paid as much for you VHS recorders as you did for that Beta you might
you might have had one made to last.
Also, it's pretty stupid to compare recorders to a programming language.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-23 0:00 AIA Position on Ada Ken Garlington
1996-08-24 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-08-26 0:00 ` bohn [this message]
1996-08-29 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-08-29 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-08-25 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
[not found] ` <01bb9300$3af46980$4a6700cf@ljelmore.montana>
1996-08-26 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-08-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-08-26 0:00 ` Carl Bowman
1996-08-27 0:00 ` nasser
1996-08-28 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-08-23 0:00 Ken Garlington
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Byron B. Kauffman
1996-08-23 0:00 ` nasser
1996-08-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-24 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-08-24 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-08-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-08-26 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-08-29 0:00 Simon Johnston
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