Ada is my first love, and it's been my primary language since 1985. Unfortunately, nobody has wanted systems built in Ada since the 1980s, so I've had to settle for Ada dialects such as PL/SQL and PL/pgSQL.I've had to code in the more modern languages as well, and given the contributions these languages make to project failures, I'm firmly of the opinion that if you want a large system built to last, build it in Ada.

If you don't vote ad hominem you are worse than Hitler!

A few months back I posted a question in a couple Linux forums to the effect that:

I can get some of my non- and semi-technical clients to install Linux on their laptops, but they'd be stopped dead by the lack of drivers for Broadcom wireless cards. Is there a distro or method that a non-techie can use?

What I got back was answers which are what I've done myself, but which would be gibberish to most non-Unix people and especially non-techies. That's extremely annoying to an open source advocate.

Last year I had a corporate client ask me if it was feasible for them to switch desktops from Windows to Linux, and I had to tell them they could not do it without doubling their IT staff. Some of that was minor but unavoidable stuff like finding OpenOffice menus, but the killer was installation woes, all of which are avoidable if we start accepting that we're no longer a club of hobbyists.