Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!srctran From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Socioeconomics, Ada, C++ Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 04:36:19 GMT Sender: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) Distribution: comp.lang.ada Organization: The World Lines: 16 Only in central planned economies are "obviously great" ideas "successful" nationally. In free markets, its survival of the "fittest". Considering the number of students learning C++, the number of commercial enterprises using C++ voluntarily for their products, and the number of companies able to make their living supplying reusable C++ libraries and services - versus the Ada world - one can only conclude that C++ is the "fittest", while it is plain to see that Ada is "obviously great". The technical superiority of C++ or Ada is irrelevant, no one will ever agree. What counts to people trying to make a living in free markets is what sells. And all I see selling is C++. Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization "We should use what we defend to defend".