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-Thread: 103376,985762be6fa32f22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40E2A7D1.6000707@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: Improving Ada's Image References: <2k06c5F16ql15U2@uni-berlin.de> <40DC0CA6.5040704@noplace.com> <06OtmLncSDdl@eisner.encompasserve.org> <40DDDBE0.1080207@noplace.com> <1w30uj1o61b1b$.14nsztczdv1wv.dlg@40tude.net> <40E154D1.8040606@noplace.com> <40e155e0$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:46:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.0.112 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1088595970 209.165.0.112 (Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:46:10 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:46:10 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2005 Date: 2004-06-30T11:46:10+00:00 List-Id: It serves to show that people don't buy "Technology" - they buy "Benefits". A lesson to be learned when trying to promote languages or new versions of existing software products. The discussion of an Ada OS is an example where this needs to be remembered. Would the purveyors of Linux go around calling it "The C OS" and hope that would attract users? Any Ada OS or office suite or network utility or whatever is *not* going to attract many users because it is written in Ada. It *might* attract users if it offers them some significant benefits that they find attractive. MDC Martin Dowie wrote: > > Sound familiar! :-( > > -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================