From: Donald Duck <Donald.Duck@Entenhausen.net>
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/02/03
Date: 1999-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36B85BE9.4CD7@Entenhausen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com
I think that people doesn't change to ADA if they see working ADA apps.
I think what they really need are ADA headlines in the magazines. They
must find ADA headlines always when they open a magazin. That was the
way with pascal (see the magazines from the 80th) and later with C (at
the end of the 80th the magazin headlines switched to "C over Pascal").
So the best thing to promote ADA would be to write ADA articles for the
most popular magazines (regardless of the content).
I think people are not interested in quality but in popularity. See for
example the OS/2 story. In my opinion OS/2 was better than windows (at
least Win 3.1). But - who knows OS/2 ??? So the people bought Windows.
And they have wait a couple of years for Win95 although OS/2 already
existed.
Same with cars. If one has to decide between Daimler-Chrysler or
Humiondic, I think he would decide for the first one - simply because
the name (not the technic) is better known.
Regards,
Alfred
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1999-01-21 0:00 how to make Ada more popular? bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-01-21 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-23 0:00 ` micro_ada
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-24 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Lack of Ada Windows books (was: " Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-01-25 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27 0:00 ` kna
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Making ADA More Popular Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` joel
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Donald Duck [this message]
1999-02-03 0:00 ` how to make Ada more popular? Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
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