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=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 9 Sep 93 18:25:16 GMT From: agate!library.ucla.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.s ei.cmu.edu!firth@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Robert Firth) Subject: Re: TRI-Ada '94 Topics Message-ID: <1993Sep9.142516.17296@sei.cmu.edu> List-Id: In article <2683ob$100@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wr ites: >I guess this is another instance of desparately wanting there to be a simple >formula hiding around the corner, and if only we knew the secret formula (i.e. >the one that Tuck will reveal in this amazing keynote address), then all will >be well, since we can just adopt that marketing approach and Ada will seel >like hotcakes. But, Robert, there surely is a secret formula. Or are we to suppose there was an immense, unsatisfied demand for hula hoops, pet rocks, and repulsive purple dinosaurs? (Not to mention object-oriented programming.) Commodities don;t find markets; they create them. (I think this is called Say's Law, by the way.) However, if we really want Ada to sell like hot cakes, maybe we should ask Sega to tell us how they marketed Sonic the Hedgehog?