From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: New IEEE Language Popularity Ratings
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 13:29:31 -0700
Date: 2016-08-09T13:29:31-07:00 [thread overview]
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On 08/09/2016 12:58 PM, Norman Worth wrote:
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> Even in the mission critical defense area, Ada has fallen out
> of use. This has been costly in terms of maintenance and reliability, but
> contractors feel they can not use Ada for personnel reasons.
In the defense area in the US, "personnel reasons" is an excuse. The real reason
is to maximize profits. For most US defense projects, the developing
organization's profits are proportional to the cost of the project, so anything
that increases costs is adopted. They use "Mongolian hordes" of the lowest-cost
(assuming that means least-competent) people they can find for this reason. A
poorly designed, error-prone language is an additional tool for maximizing profits.
--
Jeff Carter
"You tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!"
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2016-07-28 14:58 New IEEE Language Popularity Ratings brbarkstrom
2016-07-28 15:05 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-07-28 20:19 ` brbarkstrom
2016-07-28 20:47 ` G.B.
2016-08-09 19:58 ` Norman Worth
2016-08-09 20:29 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2016-08-09 21:18 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-08-09 22:26 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-08-09 23:18 ` Anh Vo
2016-08-10 6:08 ` Stu Hollander
2016-08-10 7:13 ` Paul Rubin
2016-08-10 8:57 ` G.B.
2016-08-10 15:50 ` Paul Rubin
2016-08-10 16:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-08-10 18:43 ` Paul Rubin
2016-08-10 19:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-08-10 22:55 ` Paul Rubin
2016-08-10 23:14 ` G.B.
2016-08-11 0:53 ` Paul Rubin
2016-08-11 21:34 ` G.B.
2016-08-10 23:06 ` G.B.
2016-08-11 0:04 ` Paul Rubin
2016-08-11 6:55 ` rrr.eee.27
2016-08-11 6:56 ` Paul Rubin
2016-08-10 7:23 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-08-10 9:07 ` G.B.
2016-08-10 9:12 ` G.B.
2016-08-10 14:41 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-07-29 6:41 ` Jerry
2016-07-29 12:37 ` brbarkstrom
2016-08-03 15:24 ` Serge Robyns
2016-08-06 15:53 ` brbarkstrom
2016-08-06 20:10 ` rieachus
2016-08-06 20:59 ` brbarkstrom
2016-08-06 23:32 ` G.B.
2016-08-06 20:20 ` rieachus
2016-08-06 21:38 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-08-07 1:19 ` brbarkstrom
2016-08-07 6:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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