From: Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada
Date: 1996/09/25
Date: 1996-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3249E81B.18CE@dynamite.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Sep23.202516.1@eisner
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.
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1996-09-20 0:00 long term viability of Ada Greg A Barnett
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Shayne Flint
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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
[not found] ` <4vd8z1ze0o.fsf@world.std.com>
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-09-24 0:00 ` bourass
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
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
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
[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 ` Dave Wood
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain [this message]
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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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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