Re: Reasons NOT To Choose Ada

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <JSA.96Dec5213408@alexandria>, jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) writes:
> In article <1996Dec4.190401.1@eisner> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

>> Yes, rather than torture programmers with frequent language changes
>> the Ada community prefers to torture purchasing agents with frequent
>> company and product name changes.  ObjectAda is now from a company
>> called Aonix.  Formerly Thomson.  Former Alsys.
> 
> Yeah, really!  Criminey, I was just getting used to "Thomson"...

I spoke to someone at their booth in Philadelphia yesterday, and
they convinced me of the wisdom of the change.  Although Thomson
was an appealing name to me, there are groups of prospective
customers in other countries for whom it was not an appealing
name.  I am sure those customers will buy more compilers than
I will, and anything which makes their compiler more popular
without undermining technical quality is fine with me.

Larry Kilgallen

P.S. Off topic ?  Well, I guess I am saying that name changes
may be worthy of grousing on c.l.a, but they do _not_ constitute
a reasonable basis for avoiding Ada :-)