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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nasser@apldbio.com Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/08/20 Message-ID: <4vbttf$m2j@lex.zippo.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 175345155 references: <31EA0B65.3EF8@wgs.estec.esa.nl> <31EF7E48.5ABE@lmtas.lmco.com> organization: Perkin-Elmer Applied BioSystems newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , jsa@alexandria says... > >In article <4utuag$ii9@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> Craig Franck writes: > >> Yes, to the informed many misinfored perceptions appear goofy! >> I think if more books on Ada were available to the general >> programming public, these perceptions would change. In a recent >> trip to a book store I counted 280 books with C/C++ in the title >> (it's a big Barnes & Noble) and just 4 on Ada. Only 1 of which >> had Ada 95 in the title. Fortunately there are abundant resources on >> the Internet. > >A chicken or egg problem if there ever was one. Bookstore managers >are some of the most fad/pop oriented folks around (for obvious >reasons). So, the only way to change this would be for more people to >actually request one or more of the many good books available but not >readily so from your local general book store. > I once did just that. I asked a manager for Barnes&Noble store why he only have one Ada book in the whole store and why he does not put more Ada books on the shelfs, he turned and asked me: what is Ada? , I told him it is a programming langauge, he told me : He has plenty of C/C++ books If I would be interested! I asked him again if he could get more Ada books to put on the shelfs, he told me that he only gets what there is demand for, I said if people do not see Ada books, how can they buy them? he then said that these books and what books are ordered, all come down from the "central" office. It is a chicken and egg problem for sure. Nasser -- Nasser Abbasi. C/C++/Ada Solaris. Perkin Elmer - Applied BioSystem division. email: nasser@apldbio.com MSEE, MSCS, MSCE, Fide chess master (FM). "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." Western Union internal memo, 1876. "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.