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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,23a17bbd96d53327 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: Assembler in Ada? Date: 1999/01/27 Message-ID: <36AF5601.E571D844@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 437604040 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <369C5E08.69727537@mbox5.swipnet.se> <78a32f$dbr$1@remarQ.com> <78fv79$7mj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78hj3k$2tn$1@remarQ.com> <78igfq$32g$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78kev8$k1f$1@remarQ.com> <87btjku7qq.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr> <78nan9$2as$1@remarQ.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: diespammer@pwfl.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: news.oxy.com wrote: > > > The other thing comes to my mind also. Just imagine that Microsoft would > react the same way for [potential] users needs. Would it have such success? > Would it help to promote Microsoft products? Just look at the Microsoft WEB > . You will find links to huge amount of free, shareware and commercial > software written for MS-Windows. This is extremely convenient. They know > what they are doing and why. > This is a valid point. It really doesn't help a business to tell the customer that they are "irrational" or that they are capable of handling it themselves, if only they weren't so ignorant. What makes a business successful is to look for ways to make the customer's lives easier. If a customer is ignorant or irrational, find a way to work with that. Chances are, you end up discovering that they have a point. I remember hearing tell of a large discount retail chain that was so dedicated to making the customer happy that they bragged about how they once took a set of auto tires in on a return from a dissatisfied customer. The chain didn't even sell auto tires! But the point was that they send someone away smiling who had come in unhappy and that this mentality makes for repeat business, etc. (The company in question was also enormously successful in a financial sense as well, so it isn't a case of being so "nice" that you give away the business...) So what would be wrong with posting links to additional documentation in the cs.nyu.edu website? For that matter, what would be wrong with posting links to other gcc based compilers? All it can do is get people more hooked on using the gcc based products. How can that be a bad thing if your business is selling gcc based services? MDC -- Marin David Condic Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 Ph: 561.796.8997 Fx: 561.796.4669 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.