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: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-10 16:56:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshub1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au!news1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au.POSTED!not-for-mail From: raj Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Why is ada dead? Message-ID: References: <3B460DA9.C2965042@ix.netcom.com> <9ff447f2.0107061757.34ca0723@posting.google.com> <3B475678.C582735D@worldnet.att.net> <3b478165_3@news3.prserv.net> <3b48d207_1@news3.prserv.net> <3B490751.38523577@worldnet.att.net> <9icg1p$kpi$1@nh.pace.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:56:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.164.144.2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@optushome.com.au X-Trace: news1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au 994809398 203.164.144.2 (Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:56:38 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:56:38 EST Organization: @Home Network Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9758 Date: 2001-07-10T23:56:38+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 10:45:12 -0400, "Marin David Condic" wrote: >That's rather presuming that all business decisions are made on some sort of >rational basis. Figure that languages develop constituencies - Java got a >stron constituency from a lot of C/C++ programmers who found it to have >advantages, but wasn't too far from what they were used to. They had some >help from the marketing guys who sold them on how "cool" it was. The poor >sap who manages the organization has grown far from being able to keep up >with technical innovations, etc., and has to trust his staff to tell him >what is the "right" decision WRT languages. His techno-dweebs say "Java is >the hip thing!" and he's got to believe them, so migration is made that way. I am now hearing of increasing numbers of programmers who will only take on jobs if they involve Java and JSP ! Their rationale is that they do not want to lose their skill set by working in languages that are not commercially hot.