From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID,
	REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,1479b753518e2325
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/02/03
Message-ID: <1999Feb3.103908.1@eisner>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 440220077
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org
References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> <36B85BE9.4CD7@Entenhausen.net>
X-Trace: news.decus.org 918056351 12775 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2]
Organization: LJK Software
Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1999-02-03T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

In article <36B85BE9.4CD7@Entenhausen.net>, Donald Duck <Donald.Duck@Entenhausen.net> writes:

> I think people are not interested in quality but in popularity. See for
> example the OS/2 story. In my opinion OS/2 was better than windows (at
> least Win 3.1). But - who knows OS/2 ??? So the people bought Windows.
> And they have wait a couple of years for Win95 although OS/2 already
> existed.

Thus it would seem a matter of simply forcing a licensing deal on
the Wintel hardware manufacturers of the world requiring them to
include an Ada compiler on every machine sold :-)

Larry Kilgallen