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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bbfb939683be33d3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-08 21:20:56 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Fantastic Ada promotional piece from Rational (long) Date: 8 Sep 1994 22:55:31 -0400 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <34oir3$aji@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <34n5dn$3c8@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> <34nc8t$olr@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <1994Sep8.152621.11023@sei.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1994-09-08T22:55:31-04:00 List-Id: In article <1994Sep8.152621.11023@sei.cmu.edu>, Robert Firth wrote: >In article <34nc8t$olr@felix.seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: >>This "we only do what the customer wants" is typical of government >>contractors, but not of successful business in general, which is smart >>enough to get off its duff and create customers. >Exactly. There was hardly a vast unsatisfied need for pet rocks, >hula hoops, and shoes that glow in the dark. The product was >created first, then the market. That's how it works in any >mature industrial society, where 90% of new products do not >address basic needs. Thanks for the support, Robert! I guess I'm not the only crazy one..:-) >Mow about an Ada compiler that glows in the dark and comes with >a free pet rock? ...only if it's free to universities. :-) :-) :-) Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5253 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) "Pork is all that stuff the government gives the other guys." ------------------------------------------------------------------------