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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID 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: Andrzej Lewandowski Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular? Date: 1999/02/03 Message-ID: <36B864EC.73D8@mchugh.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 440203349 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> <36B85BE9.4CD7@Entenhausen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@alpha.net X-Trace: homer.alpha.net 918054292 199.88.143.1 (Wed, 03 Feb 1999 09:04:52 CDT) Organization: McHugh Software International MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 09:04:52 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Donald Duck wrote: > > 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. People will not switch to Ada unless the following (necessary but not sufficient) happens: 1. There will be Ada IDE similar to Delphi or VB front-end (actually, ObjectAda is pretty close), 2. There will be a GUI builder that will make it possible to use 3-rd party ActiveX controls, 3. There will be easy to use infrastructure for building ActiveX controls and COM objects (as easy as Delphi or VB), 4. There will be easy to use interface to databases (such as MS ADO), 5. Environment will be available in 3 versions: standard for $100, professional for $250 and enterprise for $2000, and their respective features will match features of similar Delphi or VB versions, 6. Nicely designed boxes with standard and professional versions will be available in CompUSA and CircuitCity, as well as will be mentioned on Programmer's Paradise, Programmers's Shop and Egghead's web pages, 7. Ada products will be advertised in every issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal, C++ Report, Java Report, etc., 8. Headhunters and recruiters will learn what is Ada and will have a nice pool of experienced and not very expensive (say, not more expensive than Smalltalk) developers, 9. Companies manufacturing Ada compilers and tools will make it clear and convincing that they are in good financial health, will stay in business for next 5 years and will continue providing support for their products. If not, Ada will stay where it is now. A.L.