Re: Why tagged types are a marketing mistake

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <C3oJE3.Jut@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:
>
[stuff about Object World and the fact that Ada wasn't represented]

>     Yet Ada was nowhere to be found.  Not a single company involved with
>the Ada9X effort either had a booth at the trade show, or had speakers at
>the conference.  No one there making the case for concepts like tagged types.
>No on there making the case for Ada in general.
>
[more stuff]
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>     To cut off the Ada9X efforts from the general object oriented 
>programming world is a gross mistake that indicates to me that the
>designers of Ada have little interested in competing in the non-Mandated
>world against object oriented language.  After all, Ada9X is far enough
>along for someone to show up at Object World and make the case for the
>language and diverging concepts such as tagged types.
>
>     What is it, are you guys embarassed about what you are doing that you
>don't show up and make the case for Ada?  Market share has to be won now,
>and not a in few years, when everything is neatly wrapped up.  By then, all
>the windows of opportunties will be closed.
>
Amen to that! Your posts are getting better, Greg!

Mike Feldman