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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53920231df6ca8f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-19 13:01:54 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!nuug!EU.net!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Creating markets (long) Date: 18 Sep 1994 22:22:24 -0400 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <35isl0$q6a@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <34t6od$9mo@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <351m34$1706@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <359ujr$ep@cmcl2.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1994-09-18T22:22:24-04:00 List-Id: In article <359ujr$ep@cmcl2.nyu.edu>, Richard Kenner wrote: >In article <351m34$1706@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> ncohen@watson.ibm.com writes: >>It reminds me of the (fictional) story of the corporation offered the >>opportunity to build the George Washington Bridge as a private >>enterprise, and in return to receive the rights to all tolls collected. >>The corporation observed that there were no cars currently driving across >>the Hudson River between upper Manhattan and Ft. Lee, NJ, and concluded >>that there was no market for the bridge. > >I heard a variant of this story, where the river was unnamed, the >corporation was IBM, and the marketing study was done by placing a >boat in the center of the river and counting the number of people >swimming across. "Why is there so little support for Ada on the Mac?" "Good question, Mike. How many Ada programmers do _you_ know that use Macs?" I rest my case. 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 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER. "Pork is all that stuff the government gives the other guys." ------------------------------------------------------------------------