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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,630c12e823d1bdf4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-13 07:26:59 PST Message-ID: <3E22E61E.9020400@nospam.adrianhoe.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:15:26 +0800 From: Adrian Hoe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Compiler Pricing (was Re: Hijacking a Thread was RE: New Ada compiler for .NET) References: <1040653133.613605@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3e18f3f3_1@news.tm.net.my> <6KwmrO7CZtnj@eisner.encompasserve.org> <1041910244.361888@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3E1E5604.5030209@nospam.adrianhoe.com> <3E1EA349.6B97C328@adaworks.com> <3E1F9FD5.90802@nospam.adrianhoe.com> <3E22B217.FA0DB29@brighton.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: akh-131-138.tm.net.my X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: akh-131-138.tm.net.my X-Trace: news.tm.net.my 1042470577 akh-131-138.tm.net.my (13 Jan 2003 23:09:37 +0800) Organization: TMnet Malaysia Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!uunet!dca.uu.net!news1.tm.net.my Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32964 Date: 2003-01-14T00:15:26+08:00 List-Id: John English wrote: > Adrian Hoe wrote: > >>The lack of Ada books is another reason why Ada is unable to catch on >>the band wagon. No doubt there are a few very good books on Ada. But >>the number is simply not enough to catch people's attention. >> > > Publishers have cut back on the number of Ada books they publish > because there isn't as big a market as there is from books on e.g. > Java. Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me... Argh... Chicken and egg problem again! ;-) -- type Dmitry is new Adrian; -- Adrian Hoe -- http://adrianhoe.com -- Remove *nospam* to email