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

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

Robert C. Leif wrote in comp.lang.ada:
> I totally agree. I would also like to add that Ada has very
> significant commercial advantages beyond the obvious technological
> ones.

Ada has? Are you trying to say that using Ada has commercial
advantages in comparison to using other programming langauges?
Answering this question depends on the requirements of the development
team in question, budgets, available libraries and tools, developer
qualification, and more. For _a lot_ of projects, I'd personally not
recommend to use Ada.

> 1) It can be created in a distribute environment.

Are you trying to say that it is better suited for distributed
_development_? I doubt the choice of programming language makes a
great difference there.

> 2) As I have proposed, one can build a program based on ASIS to
> divide up the royalties.

Which is such a pressing need that it has been implemented before for
other languages.

> 3) Ada is exotic. One could hype the
> technology.

Obviously, you're doing your best to do so. I only find your choice of
audience a strange one.

Gerhard
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