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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: An Ada Advice Inquiry
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 11:59:21 +0200
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"Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net> writes:

> Or do they figure they deserve free beer in their supply chain so they
> can charge Champagne prices to their own customers?  I just don't get
> the  mindset.

That's not the question. The questions is if the merits of Ada
relative to other languages justify the price difference between the
Ada tool set and the tool sets for other languages. 

I have have bit of trouble illustrating this point. Let's say an Ada
tool set with which you can write cross platform CSS code for Linux
and Windows costs you 28_000�. Then compare that to a
Java/C/C++/Python tool set which meets the same requirements. I'd like
to refer to some price lists in the 500� to 1000� range which I would
call 'affordable'. My trouble is I can get all this for 0�.

And if you ask: no, I don't want to write an engine control system for
Eurofighter in Java. I don't want to write one at all. Maybe I'm not
in the right target group for Ada?

-- 
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. 
He simply follows the eleventh commandment.
-- R.A. Heinlein