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From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available
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>>>>> "c" == chris  <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:

    c> wojtek@power.com.pl wrote:
    >> Try to convince some venture capitalists, or high level managers, that
    >> it's better to code in Ada, even thought you'll have to supply your
    >> sources to the customers (practically also competitors) under GPL.
    >> Please get back to me if you succeed.

    c> Why would you  tell them what language it's in?  Surely all they need
    c> to know is it's not BrainF**k or Whitespace ;)

Actually, both potential customers and investors may care. About 1992,
in a previous company, I managed to convince the rest of the project
that Ada would be a good language to implement a soft real time, fault
tolerant distributed RDBMS in. We got quite a bit of negative comments
from technically minded customers, and also potential investors,
mostly because C++ was seen as the coming language, and Ada was
perceived as un-cool. They figured that being left out of the
mainstream was not a good idea. What eventually shot the idea down,
was ridiculous prices for compilers, and non-availability for certain
platforms (which we ended up not porting to anyway).  The system is
now C, C++, and Java.

-- 
   C++: The power, elegance and simplicity of a hand grenade.