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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a4a373312601ca4b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy Date: 1999/02/26 Message-ID: <7b6c4q$7pa$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 448714110 References: <36CC64A1.3E98D9B4@Botton.com> <7avmc6$gvf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b16dn$p0e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <1999Feb24.131906.1@eisner> <7b3oah$teq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b4fod$kd4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x1.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Feb 26 14:46:53 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7b4fod$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. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own