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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea92c0e5255811d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-08 23:30:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed3.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!news-xfer.cox.net!cox.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030302 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Way OT: Adam Smith and Software Markets References: <1047043964.776224@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <87isuvw9tb.fsf@inf.enst.fr> <1047052877.215272@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 07:30:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.249.210 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1047195026 162.83.249.210 (Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:30:26 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:30:26 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35082 Date: 2003-03-09T07:30:26+00:00 List-Id: Stanley R. Allen wrote: > BTW, budweiser and coca cola seem to have succeeded at a special > kind of sub- or un-conscious marketing that directly relates to > the success of languages like C and C++ -- cultural ubiquity. > The assumptions that people make about their circumambient > situation remain for the most part unexamined. So it's not a > surprise that programming languages are chosen without much > analysis -- whatever is provided as the norm is tacitly accepted. These same large companies also own a variety of "boutique" beverages which are marketed as if they are independently owned, to those people who fancy themselves free-thinking iconoclasts. Rather like Ada, which after all was brought to you by the U.S. Department of Defense.