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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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: 2003-03-08 23:37:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030302 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Way OT: Adam Smith and Software Markets References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 07:37:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.249.210 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1047195464 162.83.249.210 (Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:37:44 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:37:44 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35084 Date: 2003-03-09T07:37:44+00:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > Ada is much a better language than Java. Java succeeded in the commercial > market because of Sun's excellent marketing including advertising. End of > argument. They also caught the OO wave at the right time. And it looks like C instead of Pascal, which I still think is a major reason for Ada's failure.