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> "Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote in
> message news:9iv1pd$3va$1@nh.pace.co.uk...
> > One of the things that would go a long way to countering the
> misinformation
> > and overcoming the objections about tools, etc, would be to have an
> > inexpensive development toolkit sitting on the shelf next to the C++
> > environments with equivalent & better features at a competitive price.
>
> I agree.
>
> I've always been impressed with what Borland did with Delphi -- how they
> avoided the "P-word" :-) and created the brand independent of the
language.
> Rather than focus attention on the language at a time when Pascal was no
> longer fashionable, it draws attention to the value added by the Delphi
> environment, tools and libraries.  So Delphi developers actually do think
of
> themselves as "developing in Delphi" not "in Object Pascal".
>
> Would that work today for Ada?  Who knows... but I'm intrigued... :-)

Ever used Oracle PL/SQL?