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Dan'l Miller <optikos@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Luke Guest wrote:
>>> Dan'l Miller <> wrote: 
>>> The big question is why it stopped at a draft version of a formal 
>>> description of (a subset?) of Ada83: 
>>> https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/17317_fr.html 
>> 
>> It’s posts like these that make me wonder why so many
>> Ada people keep 
>> living in the past. Don’t you think it’s time to learn from
>> the past and drag your arses into the 21st century. 
> 
> The only way to drag my arse into the 21st century is for me & likeminded
> fellows to figure out what the heck went so wrong on this path.  

A good candidate:
“the tax payers’ gov. wants it” seen as a huge economic opportunity. An
opportunity that grows even larger if one can minimize investment.
Unfortunately, only tool makers and consultants see it that way. “Too
expensive”, I’ve heard a few times when asking why it went wrong.

> If you think the current path is the best one, then Dr Strangelove‘s
> advice to stop be afraid and love the “bomb”, so to speak.
> 

The advice captures cloud computing trends pretty well, IMO. The mainframes
are back! The service models are just too promising.