From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/01/25
Date: 1999-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78i4ea$oll$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 78gfid$pra$2@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk
In article <78gfid$pra$2@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn) wrote:
> I suggest to ACT to generate loads of press releases when
> GNAT 3.11p is available, not a single of which should contain
> any reference to Ada. Then see what happens ... ;-)
This reminds me of the recent trend in cigarette bilboard advertisements,
where no cigarette is depicted in the ad. It seems that actually showing the
product would completely destroy the healthy, vital image they want to
project...
That's when you know its time to punt.
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-21 0:00 how to make Ada more popular? bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-01-21 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-23 0:00 ` micro_ada
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Lack of Ada Windows books (was: " Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-01-25 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27 0:00 ` kna
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-25 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-24 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Making ADA More Popular Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-27 0:00 ` joel
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` how to make Ada more popular? Donald Duck
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
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