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-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s21.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AW: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169548286.088284.198940@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s21 1169671691 12.201.97.213 (Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:48:11 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:48:11 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:48:11 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8512 Date: 2007-01-24T20:48:11+00:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak wrote: > > Sorry, but this is made up of very thin air. > What about SWEs that were never exposed to Ada? You're going to expose them to Ada. They will like it. You'll know you've got a keeper. > What about coders that were exposed to Ada but still have no clue? They don't like Ada. > As if these were the only progamming languages in the world. There are > ~2500, according to some very conservative estimations, so there is no > need to keep comparing just these two. "Ada is good, because it's better > than C" - is this the only thing that Ada can offer? :-) With ~2500 > languages around just being better than C does not count as any > advantage, so I don't understand why do you use this as an argument so > often. > If you want to sell Ada, compare it to Java or C++ or C#, for example. The OP said he hired C programmers because he couldn't find Ada programmers, and he couldn't Ada programmers because he hired C programmers. So my reply is in those terms. -- Jeff Carter "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 66