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> You can't really mean that, can you? Luck is the only thing that makes
> anybody or anything successful?...

I too was suprised by Randy's extreme pessimism. I'm sure he was
hiperbolizing and not giving up on writing good software :-)

> If Ada were smart about it, it would go about trying to remake itself
> into a language that will address some much larger segment of the
> market. If it identified that larger (more profitable) segment...

I have identified such a market for Ada 2005: databases. Cf. my paper in
Ada-Europe 2004.