From: "news.oxy.com" <Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com>
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/02/03
Date: 1999-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <799sej$n0r$1@remarQ.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36B864EC.73D8@mchugh.com
This is exactly what I was telling almost in each my post to this forum.
But some people (from which Ada future much depends on) are telling that
there is nothing new in that ideas and doing nothing regarding this issue.
To be very good language itself is not enough to put through its way in the
programming industry.
This is only platform for creating building blocks and tools that can be
used by many other programmers.
Probably this idea should be felt as something more sensible by many more
people to start materializing itself into something solid.
Regards,
Vladimir Olensky
(vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com)
(Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com)
Telecommunication specialist,
Occidental C.I.S. Service, Inc. ( www.oxy.com )
Moscow,
Russia.
Andrzej Lewandowski wrote in message <36B864EC.73D8@mchugh.com>...
>Donald Duck wrote:
>>
>> I think that people doesn't change to ADA if they see working ADA apps.
>> I think what they really need are ADA headlines in the magazines. They
>> must find ADA headlines always when they open a magazin.
>
>
>People will not switch to Ada unless the following (necessary but not
>sufficient) happens:
>
>1. There will be Ada IDE similar to Delphi or VB front-end (actually,
>ObjectAda is pretty close),
>
Also CLAW from RR Software.
>2. There will be a GUI builder that will make it possible to use
>3-rd party ActiveX controls,
>
>3. There will be easy to use infrastructure for building ActiveX
>controls and COM objects (as easy as Delphi or VB),
>
>4. There will be easy to use interface to databases (such as MS ADO),
>
>5. Environment will be available in 3 versions: standard for $100,
>professional for $250 and enterprise for $2000, and their respective
>features will match features of similar Delphi or VB versions,
>
>6. Nicely designed boxes with standard and professional versions will
>be available in CompUSA and CircuitCity, as well as will be
>mentioned on Programmer's Paradise, Programmers's Shop and
>Egghead's web pages,
>
>7. Ada products will be advertised in every issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal,
>C++
>Report, Java Report, etc.,
>
>8. Headhunters and recruiters will learn what is Ada and will have a
>nice pool
>of experienced and not very expensive (say, not more expensive than
>Smalltalk)
>developers,
>
>9. Companies manufacturing Ada compilers and tools will make it clear
>and
>convincing that they are in good financial health, will stay in business
>for next 5 years and will continue providing support for their products.
>
>If not, Ada will stay where it is now.
>
>A.L.
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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 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
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
1999-01-21 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
1999-01-22 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
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
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
1999-01-23 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 ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` joel
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
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 [this message]
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