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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: Creating markets (long)
Date: 21 Sep 1994 15:32:51 +1000
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mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
>The point of my sardonic remark about was, of course, that they have it
>backwards. The question should have been "How many Mac programmers
>could we entice into using Ada?"

In support of Michael Feldman's basic point, I would argue that even he
is asking the wrong question.  The right question is "how many Ada/Mac
compilers can we sell", and the question we can derive from that is
"how many programmers can we persuade to use Ada-on-the-Mac"?  You don't
just want to sell Ada to existing Mac users, you want to sell the Mac
idea to existing Ada users, and you want to sell the Ada-on-a-Mac idea
to existing QuickBASIC-on-a-PC users amongst many many others.

>Don't ask me for details; I don't recall at this point, except that
>Apple was talking semi-seriously to somebody in the Ada industry
>but they just could not comes to terms. Oh well.

Oh, well, I suppose the bright side is that if there _had_ been a
popular Ada/Mac, Apple might never have decided to start the Dylan project.

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