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From: Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada
Date: 1996/09/25
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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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