Re: Choose Ada flyer

[stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)]

Chris Morgan (mihalis@ix.netcom.com) wrote:

: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) writes:

: > The Ada Resource Association is developing various marketing
: > materials around a "Choose Ada" theme.  Here is the initial
: > flyer.  Feel free to pass it around to get reactions on whether
: > it is effective, and how it could be improved.

: I think it's a bit _too_ disingenuous not to even mention Ada with
: respect to Defence. I realise it must be deliberate but I don't agree
: with it. Ada is on active duty with the UK Royal Navy for a start.

Good point.  However, these days, even defense organizations
are more interested in what commercial users are doing than what
other defense organizations are doing.  Furthermore, with defense
uses, most readers will be suspicious that the organization didn't
"choose" Ada, but rather was forced to use it due to some kind
of mandate (even in countries where there is no mandate).  Given 
our "Choose Ada" theme, we wanted to focus on uses where clearly 
Ada was a language of choice, not a language of mandate.

: Chris
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: Chris Morgan <mihalis at ix.netcom.com>		http://www.mihalis.net

-Tuck

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