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=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,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: 103376,1479b753518e2325 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Donald Duck Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular? Date: 1999/02/03 Message-ID: <36B85BE9.4CD7@Entenhausen.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 440191195 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Geldspeicher.DD Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Donald.Duck@Entenhausen.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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