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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!cronkite!male!jethro!exodus!exodus-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How Ada is failing socially Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 15:56:27 GMT References: <1991Jun24.185845.1@east.pima.edu> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Distribution: comp.lang.ada Organization: Sun MegaSystems In-reply-to: rharwood@east.pima.edu's message of 25 Jun 91 01:58:45 GMT List-Id: >... > language libraries. In the Summer '91 issue, I made the following rough count > of products by major languages: > Ada - 10 > Assembly - 32 > Basic - 65 > C - 289 >... I think it is overly simplistic to count the number of products .... in a mature ecosystem, there is little competition within a given niche. there are lots of other reasons to object (as pointed out, the sample is PCs only, etc.) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman keith.bierman@Sun.COM| khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043