From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/01/25
Date: 1999-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F64qz9.9p@jvdsys.stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 78hoiq$q5b$1@remarQ.com
news.oxy.com (Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com) wrote:
: I was always trying to point this out almost in my every message to this
: forum and I will do this more and more that if there will be some kind of
: the RAD (Rapid Application Development) close to Delphi in functionality
: based on Ada 95 this will be a revolution in Ada community that can
: significantly improve Ada positions outside the military area: ( commercial
: world - corporate IS departments, companies that are making software for
: that market as well as other public domains ).
I agree with the sentiment. Wasn't, BTW, AdaSage an attempt in this direction ?
Anyway, unless my memory decieves me, someone recently said that the Ada
market was something like 100 mil. dollar. That really is the problem.
To put that figure into perspective, I work for one of the smaller Dutch
software companies, however our annual turnover is a reasonable amount higher
than that.
So if this figure is true, we are lucky to have the compilers and tools we
have right now, but it is unlikely that anyone can justify the investment
needed to produce a solid IS offering.
--
-- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland
-- Team Ada | jdijk@acm.org
-- see http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-21 0:00 how to make Ada more popular? bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-21 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-23 0:00 ` micro_ada
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-01-25 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27 0:00 ` kna
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Lack of Ada Windows books (was: " Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-24 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Making ADA More Popular Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-27 0:00 ` joel
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` how to make Ada more popular? Donald Duck
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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