Re: The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Fortran is almost certainly not as popular as, say, C++ or Java currently
are. However, I've seen *lots* of Fortran in use in various scientific,
engineering and simulation work. A lot of the reasons for its popularity are
legacy systems and legacy programmers. While I agree that there are numerous
developers who won't know Fortran or use Fortran or believe that Fortran has
assumed room temperature, I'd venture a guess that it is still entrenched in
more places than Ada is.

So I wouldn't be surprised that a Fortran compiler is enjoying good sales
without a presence on store shelves. I'd also believe that some Ada
compilers are enjoying "good" sales - with the meaning of "good" being
rather relative to the size of the companies and their expectations -
without a presence on store shelves. The question is, how much better would
sales be if there *were* a presence on store shelves where impulse buyers
with no prior Ada experience might pick it up?

MDC
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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>
> Actually, I don't think the variety of application areas is all that wide.
Just
> because it sells well at LMC (and at my commercial flight simulator
company as
> well, BTW), doesn't mean the average software developer even knows it
exists. I
> run into a suprising amount of developers on the net who are convinced
Fortran
> is a dead language. I believe this is the situation that getting boxes on
store
> shelves would help to alleviate.
>