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: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-17 16:30:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) References: <1073gv22t969q5a@corp.supernews.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 23:30:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.33.115 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1082244623 63.184.33.115 (Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:30:23 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:30:23 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7286 Date: 2004-04-17T23:30:23+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > As a consequence, we are likely to see, over the next decade, a > series of software systems, written in C++ that are expensive to > create, difficult to maintain, and highly profitable for military > contractors. This, of course, is the real problem. Engineering high quality software is less profitable than hacking crap. Until this changes, Ada and software engineers will be seen as liabilities, not advantages. -- Jeff Carter "All citizens will be required to change their underwear every half hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside, so we can check." Bananas 29