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  • buggy software is profitable

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Niocl=C3=A1i=C5=BF=C3=ADn_C=C3=B3il=C3=ADn_de_=C4=A0lo?==?UTF-8?Q?=C5=BFt=C3=A9ir?=@[email protected] to comp.lang.ada on Fri Oct 17 18:28:43 2025
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    Dear Adaists:

    Many years ago a person who is employed to maintain non-Ada software wrote
    to an Ada forum that his employment depends on bugs caused by a non-Ada language!

    Cf.
    "Scott and I wrote such bug-free
    software that it needed no maintenance - good for our reputations,
    but bad for the income stream we hoped would keep paying for
    graduate school."
    says Page 45 of Steve Johnson, "A Thousand Miles From Care: The Hunt for
    My Brother's Killer - A Thirty-Year Quest for Justice", William Collins an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, Copyright 2024 but an "edition
    published in 2025".

    Consider what happened to Dr. Brain after writing awesome Ada software for FedSat-1.
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  • From Kevin Chadwick@[email protected] to comp.lang.ada on Fri Oct 17 16:57:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.ada

    On 17/10/2025 17:28, Niocláiín Cóilín de lotéir wrote:
    Dear Adaists:

    Many years ago a person who is employed to maintain non-Ada software wrote >to an Ada forum that his employment depends on bugs caused by a non-Ada >language!


    If the product/company is successful then there should always be more code
    to write though possibly with breaks.
    --
    Regards, Kc
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