Re: Fed OOPS ... OOPS! We forgot to include Ada!

[srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)]

>> P.S.  I apologize for using words like "investments", "return", etc.  I know
>> how nauseating these words are to socialists.
>
>Is Greg implying that Ada users are socialists?!  
>
>Eric Baker (Republican)

No, I am only implying that Ada policy makers are socialists.  They spend
other people's money with no accountability on behalf of the nation.  Their
mismanagement ends up in distortions of the marketplace that result in an
overpriced and uncompetitive products that can only be sold with massive
government subsidies (much like the Ada Mandate props up Ada vendors and
contractors), and scare away profit-driven enterprises, resulting in a few
large bloated companies commanding most of the business (with the Ada world
reduced to Rational/Verdix/Meridian, Alsys/Telesoft, and Loral/IBMFSD/Unisys)
who usually end up hiring former socialist bureacrats.

Ada has been reduced to such a pathetic commercial state that it needs
government (ADAIC) and academic (SIGADA) shills to promote Ada (like at
this week's Object World in Boston), with vendors so loathe to marketing
Ada that not once in the past six years has any Ada compiler vendor in
any software magazine or journal run a full page ad for an Ada compiler
with pricing for at least three months in a row.

I was talking to one of the socialist bureacrats at DISA who expressed a
sincere desire in seeing an Ada compiler marketed commercially with a
competitive price, like a souped up version of the Ada CDROM for $50.
It is an utterly idiotic investment for a capitalistic (try doing a five
year business plan on such a proposition), but nice sounding to a socialist
bureaucrat who didn't even know the cost of a one-time, full-page, four
color ad in any software journal.

    Until such time as someone comes forth with any statistic for any segment
of the non-Mandated marketplace that shows that Ada has a non-trivial market
share, Ada policy management by the DoD will continue to be a disaster.  Too
much money has been and is being given to people who basically lie to the DoD
about their interest and belief in Ada, starting with everyone involved with
STARS.

Greg Aharonian