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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1479b753518e2325 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular? Date: 1999/01/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 436892766 References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> <789kei$mbd$1@news.Kijfhoek.NL.net> <78hoiq$q5b$1@remarQ.com> Organization: * JerryWare *, Leiden, Holland Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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