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Date: 4 Jun 93 04:57:12 GMT
From: holmes@MIMSY.CS.UMD.EDU  (Holmes S. Liao)
Subject: Re: How to Make Ada more widely used?
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In article <SRCTRAN.93Jun2233244@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory 
Aharonian) writes:
>
>    And to beat a dead horse, Ada will remain a dead, niche language as
>long as IBM refuses to give it as much attention as it does C++ and Smalltalk.

Well, I agree with what you said about free market and Ada mandate. But
I fail to see why IBM's endorsement to Ada has anything to do with this. 

For one thing: IBM didn't endorse Unix nor Windows. Any yet look at them on 
the market today. (I'm not saying Unix and Windows are on the same level. :-) 

holmes liao