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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
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Subject: Re: Reaching traditional engineering, was: Array mappings
Date: 18 Dec 1994 21:11:51 -0500
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In article <3d03j7$q21@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>I assume you are aware of the Cray/Ada effort which was certainly aimed
>at least partly at their Fortran community.

I'm vaguely aware of it. Not one engineer I ever asked was aware of it.
(Yes, I asked a few...:-))

>As for FOrtran engineers wondering why Ada sales people had not knocked
>on their door -- that's easy, none of the Ada companies could have BEGUN
>to afford this level of marketing effort!

How sad. By this argument, no small company can ever grow larger,
because it cannot afford to spend money to let people know about it.

Mike Feldman