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From: louk@tslwat.UUCP (Lou Kates)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Language Use
Keywords: C,Ada,Pascal,C++,Other?
Message-ID: <348@tslwat.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 91 23:08:57 GMT
References: <1150@ra.MsState.Edu> <MV6OD8B@math.fu-berlin.de> <12219@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: louk@tslwat.UUCP (Lou Kates)
Organization: Teleride Sage, Ltd., Waterloo
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In article <12219@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> kemnitz@gaia.berkeley.edu (Greg Kemnitz) writes:
>The thing that tends to determine which language will be used in industry would
>surprise many people - it has very little to do with the intrinsic quality of
>the language itself in most cases.  It is whether people are available who know
>and are familiar with the language.

Actually I don't think that people even go into it that much. Its
mostly a matter of market share -- if most other people are using
it then you use it too.

People make these decisions on the basis of minimizing their risk
("nobody ever   got  fired for   recommending  IBM") rather  than
maximizing their gain and the more other people that are using it
the more proven it is.

Lou Kates, Teleride Sage Ltd., louk%tslwat@watmath.waterloo.edu