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-Thread: 103376,a0be06fbc0dd71f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk References: <20071229040639.f753f982.coolzone@it.dk> <878x3436pj.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87wsqo1krf.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <_SRfj.22727$Ux2.11916@attbi_s22> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1199565370 12.201.97.213 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:36:10 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:36:10 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:36:10 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19224 Date: 2008-01-05T20:36:10+00:00 List-Id: Michael Bode wrote: > > I'm not complaining. I'm just giving my view on the topic. And thank > you, I'm making money in my day job. And in this job (which has > nothing to do with defense or aerospace) it's more economical to write > future apps in Java than to roll my own GUI library. This might be > another anecdotical example on the topic. I suspect your total life-cycle costs are greater using Java than using Ada, even with your own GUI library. -- Jeff Carter "If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate." Monty Python's the Meaning of Life 56