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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,83242c369c5dc9b0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: stt@henning.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) Subject: Re: Book REview Date: 1996/05/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 154582737 sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com (USENET news) x-nntp-posting-host: henning.camb.inmet.com references: organization: Intermetrics, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Dave (davedave@io.com) wrote: : Because the Australian market is small, it would be very unwise to risk a : position in the U.S. market in order to capture a position in the : Australian market. (For the benefit of persons such as yourself, perhaps : I should not have left the following point implied: By removing the : "Americanisms" from the book, they might make it less attractive to the : U.S. market.) I don't think anyone is being arrogant ;-). However, I humbly disagree with the notion that removing "Americanisms" might hurt the book in the U.S. Market. If anything, an attention to international concerns is essential for all of us, especially those interested in being successful in the software market. If a text book helps to raise awareness of issues relating to internationalization and localization, it would be doing students a great favor. And as far as being interesting, I suspect many students will find it more interesting to see examples talking about Rubles or Swiss Francs or Pesos than always seeing the typical dollars-and-cents examples. I also don't fault Mike for missing some of these issues, given the effort involved in creating a text book in the first place. But the suggestions relating to removing Americanisms, some of which are probably unintentional (such as "GPA"), seem worth considering for future revisions of the text, and would probably enhance the appeal of the text, even in the U.S. market. Just another opinion... : -- Dave Jones : davedave@io.com -Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com http://www.inmet.com/~stt/ Intermetrics, Inc. Cambridge, MA USA