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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote:
: Not all decisions are perfectly made, but ask this: Why would a bunch of
: guys with an existing investment in Ada drop it like a hot potato the
: instant they could? Possible answers:
 [...] 
: 3) They're motivated by a desire for benefits that are not addressed by
: Ada as well as they are by some other language.

So we'd have to change the perception of Ada. There are good
components available for building, e.g. small secure eShops.
WebSphere, big and rich as it is, doesn't seem to do too well,
PHP is used here and there, Java/Tomcat has tricky little
tasking/RPC/TCP/IP problems, so how about AWS?