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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,15edb893ef79e231 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-13 11:05:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: True faiths ( was Re: The true faith ) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 19:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <%njZ7.279$iR.150960@news3.calgary.shaw.ca> <3c36fbc5_10@news.newsgroups.com> <4idg3u40ermnp682n6igc5gudp7hajkea9@4ax.com> <76be8851.0201101909.9db0718@posting.google.com> <9jtu3u8cq92b05j47uat3412tok6hqu1ki@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1010948716 9505 129.241.83.82 (13 Jan 2002 19:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 19:05:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18871 Date: 2002-01-13T19:05:16+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 17:18:55 +0100, Nils Goesche wrote: >> >> This implies that the marked is rational and logical. It has shown time >> and time again that it isn't. The marked won't choose a superior >> technical solution over an inferior yet better marketed or seemingly >> cheaper solution. > > It won't? Where do you know that? Who is ``the market''? Software > companies decide for themselves which programming language they use. Well look at the history and the present and you'll see this. Were is the rationality to start using say C/C++ for critical systems? > Well, that's the decision they made, then. If you think it's a wrong > one, you could prove it by making a different decision in /your/ company. > If you are right, your product should be more successful, right? What is your point? I'm trying to point out that C++ and C are chosen not from the point of making the most secure software, but for cutting costs. The customers are sadly not knowledged or critical enough to demand something better. > Blaming the market doesn't make sense at all here. You think the market > is ``irrational and illogical''? Who is ``rational and logical'' then? > Some communist party? There isn't much of an alternative here; either Huh? I have not said anything about communism. Why do you drag this utopia into it. I just say that Capitalism isn't perfect either (as is the case with all -isms). I'm not a communist nor do I have any sympathies for communism. It is quite funny to see how you jump on the everybody-that-says-capitalism-isn't-perfect is a communist. *sigh* Preben -- () Join the worldwide campaign to protect fundamental human rights. '||} {||' http://www.amnesty.org/