From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)
Subject: Re: Is Ada the Future?
Date: 2 Oct 1994 06:59:55 -0500
Date: 1994-10-02T06:59:55-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36m7br$evm@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: INFO-ADA%94100122101508@VM1.NODAK.EDU
In article <INFO-ADA%94100122101508@VM1.NODAK.EDU>,
Simtel20 Transfer <HARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU> wrote:
>I read in Information Week that Bill Gates says that
>he has $500M invested in Windows NT product family.
Hmm, that sounds like a common number with the "biggies" nowadays.
F'rinstance, the hot rumor now is that IBM is sinking $500M in
promotion of their new release of OS/2 (which is a pretty
impressive OS, I'm running the beta right now).
>I used to think that the $30M or so that the DoD
>out into Softech's original Ada effort was a lot
>of money and should have been enough. But now after
>reflection and considering the $500M for an operating system
>maybe a new language system, namely Ada 9X, needs
>> $500M to begin to make it commercially viable.
>Do we have the $500M+ to put into a new commercial
>programming language system? I doubt if the DoD does.
>Ok, I'll speculate that Ada 9X needs about $750M
>invested over the next several years to make it
>a commercial success.
>Agree? Disagree?
>
Disagree. Advertising Ada with a huge multimillion-dollar (US$ :-)
budget probably won't help. That money should be used instead (IMHO)
to bribe some companies to create Ada-based products and tools that
compete on an even level with other languages (as a minimum) -- but
that would still perpetuate the old "The government will support your
Ada efforts" anyway, which I'm against. *sigh* Life is full of
paradoxes :-)
>p.s. just the team Ada uniforms will cost
>a considerable amount of money :-)
Like all other sects, we're having problems collecting large
donations ourselves. As a result, the planned distribution of
uniforms for Team Ada members is cancelled. Instead, we managed to
get a good deal on those "Happy Face" buttons that were so popular in
the 70's (I guess somebody overstocked), so that will be our lapel
pin :-) <-- That's what one looks like.
--
Proud (and vocal) member of Team Ada! (and Team OS/2) ||This is not your
Ada -- Very Cool. Doesn't Suck. || father's Ada
For all sorts of interesting Ada tidbits, run the command: ||________________
"finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.)
ObNitPick: Spelling Ada as ADA is like spelling C++ as CPLUSPLUS. :-)
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1994-10-02 3:13 Is Ada the Future? Simtel20 Transfer
1994-10-02 10:40 ` Kevin V. Sobilo
1994-10-02 11:59 ` David Weller [this message]
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1994-10-02 12:09 ` Tucker Taft
1994-10-02 17:05 ` Gregory Aharonian
1994-10-02 20:44 ` Tucker Taft
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