Re: an interested business-oriented programmer

[Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com>]

Obviously.  What we're talking about is expanding Ada's market.  I too
would prefer that extensions be kept to a minimum.  I'm not familiar
enough with Ada to know that extensions would be required simply to
access the Win32 C-based API (I hadn't thought so).  Those are the only
extensions that I'm aware of that MIGHT be required for some other
languages (at least until the next standard revision).  

If you want to get STUDENTS trained in Ada, then you've got to make it
easy for them.  They're NOT going to accept a basic command line tool
set environment to any great extent (sure a few 'geeks' will).

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <3B1E7320.5E21BB4F@lmtas.lmco.com>, Gary Scott says...
> >So why doesn't someone put together a "Visual Ada" product integrated
> >with Visual Studio and mass market it?  They did it for Fortran...
> 
> Perhaps because the Ada market's insistance on standard conformance prevents
> "someone" from embracing-and-extending the language to trap their users.
> 
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