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From: Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics
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On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 04:39:59 GMT, I R T <rambam@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

>"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:
>
>> The bottom line is that unless Linux is perfect, you
>> cannot state that Ada could not have done better.
>
>Or Smalltalk, Eifel , Lisp, CPL, APL , PLI or any other language.
>
>So what is your point ?

The point is that either revenues or number of customers tell very
little about technical merits of a software product. They are almost
uncorrelated. Talking about perfection people are quickly switching
from technical perfection to marketing one and back. Using an
appropriate period of oscillation one could prove anything...

>Perhaps angels can be programmed in Ada too...

But the fallen ones were in C++! (:-))

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Dmitry Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de