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From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
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Bill Findlay <yaldnifw@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:<BA3A535D.177F%yaldnifw@blueyonder.co.uk>...
> On 2/1/03 17:57, in article 3E147D79.2070703@cogeco.ca, "Warren W. Gay
> VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe what needs to be done is to form a brand new committee, to design
> > a spashy new language that basically implements the same features, with
> > similar syntax (but not too obviously). Then give it a splashy new name
> > after a popular young female (no programmer experience required), and
> > call it something like "Shania".
> 
> In a language controversy on comp.arch a few weeks ago, some of us came to
> the conclusion that a lot of the irrational antipathy to Ada was based on
> unregenerate machismo. 

Not all the antipathy to Ada is irrational.  Most of it comes
from sad experience.  Mine was trying to use Ada-83 to write Unix 
applications with a Motif UI.  Regardless of any superiority in
reliability, the scarcity of libraries and trained
programmers makes Ada too expensive for most commercial software
projects.