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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7961088baf0e34d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bohn@rational.com Subject: Re: AIA Position on Ada Date: 1996/08/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 176632966 references: <321DA0F3.34BC@lmtas.lmco.com> <321f0f6d.0@red.interact.net.au> content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: Rational Software Corporation mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > >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.