Re: A new market in which Ada can play?

["Mark Lundquist" <up.yerz@nospam.com>]

"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote in
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> Well, they may be in the Video On Demand market, but there wasn't a whole
> lot of mention of Ada on their website. Their job postings indicated one
> software engineer position in Ft. Lauderdale - and they were looking for
C.

That must be the "one more C programmer" from the Peter Coffee article :-)
OK, that was C++, but same idea...

>
> Their search engine turned up a product they call MAXAda. I was unable to
> find enough information about targets to determine if it was somehow
usable
> for building STB apps. (Price ranges and host platform info might be nice
> too!) Its a hopeful sign that someone out there is building Ada and also
> involved in cable video

Yes, if it's true then that is a very hopeful sign.  Also an ironic footnote
in the history of Ada vs. Java, since Java was concieved with STBs in
mind... :-)

Cheers,

Mark