Re: Microsoft .Net, Ada should be at the head of this list

["Gerhard Häring" <gerhard@bigfoot.de>]

Adrian Hoe wrote in comp.lang.ada:
> Gerhard Hï¿œring wrote:
>> Robert C. Leif wrote in comp.lang.ada:
>>>The reason I posted this was to benefit the commercial use of Ada.
>> 
>>>I doubt that Microsoft would believe that Ada was a serious
>>>commercial threat.
>>>
>> 
>> Why would $ProgrammingLanguage be a threat to $Company? That doesn't
>> make any sense to me.
> 
> Ada will put out their business because their software is bugle$$ and 
> users will no longer to upgrade their software so frequently.

That's bullshit. Programming languages don't take companies out of
business. Competing companies and competing better products and better
marketing do.

I'm not aware of any product developed in Ada that competes with a
Microsoft product. Perhaps an embedded Ada RTOS competing with Windows
CE would come closest.

Gerhard
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