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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: 1994-09-26 22:04:24 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!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: 27 Sep 1994 00:30:17 -0400 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <36874p$4ro@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <35isl0$q6a@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <35k5f5$h4k@dayuc.dayton.saic.com> <35o0ct$1ep@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <35ogi3$a5r@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1994-09-27T00:30:17-04:00 List-Id: In article <35ogi3$a5r@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: >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. Well, sure. The diehard Mac fan in me certainly won't dispute this point. On the other hand, I'd have settled for the Ada companies selling _Ada_, without worrying about selling Apple's hardware for them. Now, had there been a _real_ alliance between Apple and an Ada vendor, where each benefited from the other's involvement... Sigh...pipe dreams... 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." ------------------------------------------------------------------------