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From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada
Date: 1996/09/25
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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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