From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada
Date: 1996/09/25
Date: 1996-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32498F93.4AE4@lmtas.lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3249E81B.18CE@dynamite.com.au
Alan Brain wrote:
>
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>
> > Dave can count sales, but for the rest of us one metric might be
> > to see bookstores briskly selling many volumes entitled "Ada for
> > C++ Programmers" or similar.
>
> But a similar metric would give misleading results:
> There are NO "Secrets of the Ada Masters" books - mainly because one
> of the prime aims of Ada is to make Gurus unneccessary.
> Thera are no "Ada for Dummies" books - yet maybe there should be.
Here's another useless metric, related to the bookstore theme: I
recently received a mailing from the Association of Computing Machinery
on new books for object-oriented stuff. Two Ada (95) books were listed
(in small type). Three books on Dylan were listed (big flashy graphics
on their own page). Therefore, clearly Dylan is the more widely-used
language.
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LMTAS - "Our Brand Means Quality"
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-20 0:00 long term viability of Ada Greg A Barnett
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Shayne Flint
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-22 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-24 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Uri Raz
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Frank Manning
[not found] ` <4vd8z1ze0o.fsf@world.std.com>
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-09-24 0:00 ` bourass
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-27 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
[not found] ` <01bba6ce$f10dae20$488371a5@dhoossr.iquest.com>
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
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1996-09-21 0:00 DeanNelson
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-24 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-24 0:00 Mark Bell
1996-10-01 0:00 Simon Johnston
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