From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 24 May 93 23:18:12 GMT From: timbuk.cray.com!hemlock.cray.com!gbt@uunet.uu.net (Greg Titus) Subject: Re: verdix kisses off Ada Message-ID: <1993May24.181812.5019@hemlock.cray.com> List-Id: In article <1993May24.220351.22467@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@csulx.weber.edu writes : >... > >Nevertheless, Verdix may end up selling their C++ compiler for a lower price >than their Ada compiler. It may be as simple (is anything in economics >simple :-) ?) as being able to spread the development costs over a larger >expected sales volume. And thereby hangs our tail. ;-) The point we have been hearing so often in this discussion is that the vendors, for whatever reason(s), did not undertake certain strategies that would have increased the demand for Ada. Now it appears that at least one of them is attempting to expand into a market that exists precisely because some other entity (Bell+Berkeley) did undertake those strategies (for UNIX and C). Oh, the delicious irony of it all! greg -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Titus (gbt@zia.cray.com) Compiler Group Cray Research, Inc. Santa Fe, NM Opinions expressed herein (such as they are) are purely my own.