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Subject: Re: Ada student homework ?
Date: 2000/11/13
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Robert Dewar:

> An interesting assessment, my own observation is that a lot
> of people find a Windows PC really *quite* difficult to use.
> The success of the Mac (remember it has a significant slice
> of a very large market) is certainly based on this,

Significant ? It has dropped to about 1%. Take a look at any
Web counter statistics... The mistake of targetting only
a part of the market (even 90%) is cumulative over the years.

It is the same for Ada: it is an excellent all-purpose language.
But if compiler makers find it is only made for large-scale projects,
high-safety, avionics and military, the result at the end
will be that even (or especially) those fields thought as
"safe markets nailed to Ada" will drop it. Same reason as
the Mac-PC paradigm: too few users.

It is not too late for realizing that: at the moment there
is a "hole". Even Microsoft finds C++ unsatisfactory for its
needs (the #include was a good things 30 years ago but...),
hence the C# delirium...

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