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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,e276c1ed16429c03 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.68.MISMATCH!feeder.news-service.com!kanaga.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Ada is getting more popular! Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <4cc4cb65$0$6985$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <5086cc5e-cd51-4222-a977-06bdb4fb3430@u10g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> <14fkqzngmbae6.zhgzct559yc.dlg@40tude.net> <4cc572d5$0$6769$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:41:43 +0200 Message-ID: <4t5et4vkke8y.148p10hr7mafx.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Oct 2010 15:41:43 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 13287728.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=Fo8HF\iZK8of1oJaJ0@dmgic==]BZ:afn4Fo<]lROoRa<`=YMgDjhgbXeEk@>I_9Lh[6LHn;2LCVn7enW;^6ZC`d\`mfM[68DCcg]^;1UL>`^d X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14752 Date: 2010-10-25T15:41:43+02:00 List-Id: On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:06:44 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > On 25.10.10 12:33, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > >> Redistribution is the key. You pay/invest in not what you get/sell. It is a >> distorted relationship between the producer and consumer. >> >> The point is that service is secondary to the product. > > I imagine that theorists of how-to-build-software-business will > emphasize differently: > Mathematically, the most important good is the one that > produces the highest profit, respecting the limiting factors > such as law, strategy, or other obligations. Criteria such > as how-to-find-a-societal-optimum in a market economy > seem to be artifacts of macro economy without positive > manifestation anywhere. Redistribution is a multivariate > function of n-compiler : m-customers, ceteris paribus. > > Can you name the latter? Yes, the GOSPLAN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOSPLAN The article does not mention that many modern mathematical methods were developed for GOSPLAN trying to optimise that multivariate function of Soviet economy. That didn't help, of course. > (So he who rides a horse is a parasite? :-) no, it is someone who cooks horse flesh. (:-)) >> That this model of software development (not only compiler development) is >> not socially/economically sustainable is obvious when you consider present >> software quality (miserable), the types of software being developed (mostly >> useless/damaging), the amount of resources spend directly/indirectly on >> software (huge waste). > > Do you have the numbers of compiler makers who sold > nothing but compilers in, say, the late 1980s versus > the same numbers as of today? Numbers of licenses sold? No idea. There existed dozens of C compilers that time. How many are now? Let us draw a chart: Ada version / compiler number Ada 83 - 10 (?) Ada 95 - 3 (?) Ada 2005 - 1 (?) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de