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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea92c0e5255811d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-04 11:44:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-han1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Way OT: Adam Smith and Software Markets Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1046807046 2206 134.91.1.15 (4 Mar 2003 19:44:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:44:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/831)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34871 Date: 2003-03-04T19:44:06+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: : Preben Randhol wrote in message : news:slrnb678l5.2g1.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no... :> :> Or they might not prefer it but be force into using it because allmost :> everybody else uses it (or feels forced to...). : Nobody is "forced" into using Word - or any other word processor for that : matter. Well, certainly we may choose our word processors, as well as programming languages, but your original statement said that the (not really existent smithonian) free market will let the better product win, with better not specifically defined. Now saying that the better product is the one with the preferable qualities you mentioned will clearly make both C and Visual Basic better programming languages that Ada. -- Georg