Re: Standard Library Interest?

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

And that's a really critical issue for any library. You can't just count 
on its existence - or even its distribution with a compiler - to make it 
  well known and used. It has to satisfy some needs for the programmer 
(I think ASIS appeals to a particular market segment, but is not of much 
use to the general world - hence lack of visibility to most Ada users), 
it has to be well documented so the programmer can figure out what to do 
with it and it has to be actively *promoted* in some manner.

Even Coke buys ads all the time, despite its market dominance. Why? They 
want to keep their name in front of the public so they will *stay* at 
the top. If you want to get a library adopted, its going to take some 
kind of promotion to make it known to the world. Not all of that costs 
money, but one way or another, it ought to be part of the plan.

MDC


Martin Dowie wrote:
> 
> You'd ba amazed who many Ada users aren't even aware of things
> like ASIS!
> 
> 


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