Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:47:57 +0100, Gautier wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov:
> 
>> Huh, there is no market for Ada.
> 
> Not so long time ago (early 1980s), there was no market for Pascal. One day a 
> few crazy guys made Turbo Pascal, discovered that there was a market and 
> developed it, and later made Delphi...

Right, they first had developed Turbo Pascal and that created a market of
IDEs. Delphi was a "self-reflection" phase when they discovered that the
market came into existence. They targeted that marked with Delphi and
Borland C, and so have ruined their business... The moral is never think,
just do it... (:-))

>> In modern software development it is
>> commercial solutions which create markets, not otherwise... (:-))
> 
> Mmmh - do you think to some software companies which are too happy to sell year 
> after year almost the same crap, but repackaged, to large corporations, which 
> even lose each year some work months at their own cost for "upgrading" ?

This is how it works. We cannot sell Ada. We cannot sell usable software
either. Only cr*p sells well.

(Ada is a conspiracy against customers in order to do them well against
their will... (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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