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: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <40ba315a$0$254$edfadb0f@dread16.news.tele.dk> <04udnR-eHNChzSbdRVn-vw@gbronline.com> <7J0xc.7371$8k4.269106@news20.bellglobal.com> <1086630278.542788@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <8xlxc.27603$sS2.845496@news20.bellglobal.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 08:42:50 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1086784970 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 09 Jun 2004 08:42:50 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 08:42:50 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1310 Date: 2004-06-09T08:42:50-04:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 04:39:59 GMT, I R T wrote: >>"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" writes: >>>The bottom line is that unless Linux is perfect, you >>>cannot state that Ada could not have done better. >> >>Or Smalltalk, Eifel , Lisp, CPL, APL , PLI or any other language. >> >>So what is your point ? > > The point is that either revenues or number of customers tell very > little about technical merits of a software product. They are almost > uncorrelated. Talking about perfection people are quickly switching > from technical perfection to marketing one and back. Using an > appropriate period of oscillation one could prove anything... A case in point was the INFORMIX database software. It was years ahead of DB2, before IBM bought the company. But INFORMIX didn't manage to "sell" it well, and perhaps there were customer service issues as well. But technically, it was a nice clean relational database, compared to the muddled Oracle database product. Yet, Oracle is accepted as the "normal" choice for standardization in many places. >>Perhaps angels can be programmed in Ada too... > > But the fallen ones were in C++! (:-)) :) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg