Re: Hey, blame the private sector!

[world!srctran@decwrl.dec.com (Gregory Aharonian)]

>banking industry demonstrates this exactly.  How many of the gravitationally
>challenged MIS leaders at banks have read Paul Strassmann's "The Business
>Value of Computers"?  Indeed, have Greg et al read it?
 
    I have read most of everything Paul Strassman has written or said.  All
I know is that everytime he was interviewed in the computer media about 
Defense software, not once did he mention Ada.  So I suspect anything he
says about Ada because it is obvious he is embarassed to be associated
with the language.  Give me guys like General Kind who know how to advocate
a language.  Until the Mandated world starts pushing Ada much more openly,
all business people are going to think when they see ADA is the Disability
Act.  PEOPLE DON'T BUY WHAT THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF.

>So lay off the Ada compiler vendors and government offices, and lay it
>on heavy and squarely to  the dopes with multiple academic degrees in the
>private sector who prefer inconsistent results at runtime from bloated 
>write-once C code.

By dopes, do you mean any of the following millionaires and billionaires who
made their money, run successful companies, and practice what they preach
with regards to C/C++, without having to trough at tax dollars:
	Bill Gates, Phillipe Kahn, Steve Jobs, etc,etc, etc
and their companies
	Microsoft, Borland, Computer Associates, Lotus, etc,etc,etc

I wish I could be as big a dope as Bill Gates.  He has made billions on
C/C++ efforts, while the Mandated world has lost billions on Ada projects
(including WAM,STANFINS,FAA, and probably RCAS).
Greg

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