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: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-07 01:23:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4073BA61.3080405@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) References: <4072E65F.8000107@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:23:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.0.206 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1081326193 209.165.0.206 (Wed, 07 Apr 2004 01:23:13 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 01:23:13 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6800 Date: 2004-04-07T08:23:13+00:00 List-Id: That's why I would have misgivings about persuing that market. Not necessarily that many developers and/or the whole development environment is going to be controlled by a handful of really large players that will dictate what you use. But the general concept, I think, is sound: Go find some significant part of the market and try to encourage use of Ada there by providing that market what it needs. The alternative is to keep shuffling around the deck chairs & tidying up while the Titanic sinks. MDC Alexander E. Kopilovich wrote: > > Well, being somehow involved in that field (specifically, Symbian smartphones), > and therefore having glanced at various developers forums (such as Nokia and > SonyEricsson forums and some others) I can guess that there are perhaps > thousands or even (less likely) tens of thousands, but certainly not hundreds > of thousands developers of this kind; but what should be stressed about that > population of developers is that their average professional level isn't high, > as a rule - a competent programmer is a rare bird there. Then, this area is > highly monopolized: there are several giants (Nokia, Sony(/Ericsson) and > Motorola at first place) who practically determine all possibilities. This is > the current picture (as I see it -:) . > > > > Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru > Saint-Petersburg > Russia > > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================