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: 103376,93a8020cc980d113 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newsdst02.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr11.news.prodigy.net.POSTED!4988f22a!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1176150704.130880.248080@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <1177160171.286985.167860@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <1177163425.459427.175280@b58g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1177460444.575339.317730@c18g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <1177499996.15508.17.camel@localhost> Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.134.100.216 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr11.news.prodigy.net 1177508495 ST000 70.134.100.216 (Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:41:35 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:41:35 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: SCSGW^WETZSMB_DX]BCBNWX@RJ_XPDLMN@GZ_GYO^ZWZUYICD^RAQBKZQTZTX\_I[^G_KGFNON[ZOE_AZNVO^\XGGNTCIRPIJH[@RQKBXLRZ@CD^HKANYVW@RLGEZEJN@\_WZJBNZYYKVIOR]T]MNMG_Z[YVWSCH_Q[GPC_A@CARQVXDSDA^M]@DRVUM@RBM Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:41:35 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15285 Date: 2007-04-25T13:41:35+00:00 List-Id: "Markus E Leypold" wrote in message > > The mirror side is: Charge what you can get. That is something > people^Wcustomers don't like. > One of the practices that almost killed Ada was that of gouging the Department of Defense because of the mandate. By charging the highest prices they could get away with, the compiler publishers also guaranteed that commercial prospects for Ada would be slim to none. Had the pricing policies been more in-line with the rest of the market, the story of Ada might be quite different today. Richard Riehle