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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e4bb8b12e1ce0d1f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-02 05:00:57 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is Ada the Future? Date: 2 Oct 1994 06:59:55 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Message-ID: <36m7br$evm@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Date: 1994-10-02T06:59:55-05:00 List-Id: In article , Simtel20 Transfer 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. :-)