From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/02/26
Date: 1999-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b6c4q$7pa$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7b4fod$kd4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7b4fod$kd4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> In article <7b3oah$teq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> > If niche products like VisualBasic and J++ can make it
> > there, I'd think Ada could too.
>
> Ho ho ho, that's a good laugh for today, Visual Basic as
> a "niche" product.
>
> (just in case people are unaware, Visual Basic has the
> great majority of the PC development market at the moment,
> one study I saw gave it 70% of this developer's market).
I feel obliged to admit that I haven't seen any such studies, and thus was
completely ignorant of this (rather scary) fact.
But Visual Basic could't really be considered a general-purpose programming
language, could it? Perhaps "niche" isn't the right word, in the same way
"minority" isn't the right word to describe women.
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-18 0:00 CompUSA New Policy David Botton
1999-02-24 0:00 ` schrader01
1999-02-24 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-02-26 0:00 ` fmanning
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-27 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1999-02-28 0:00 ` bill
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` fraser
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Tony Gair
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-24 0:00 ` DPH
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