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,XPRIO autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,45c64a512ac9247a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." Subject: Market Driven was RE: Binding a type to a union. Date: 1999/11/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 553964509 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr Importance: Normal X-Trace: menuisier.enst.fr 943767121 26312 137.194.161.2 (28 Nov 1999 05:32:01 GMT) Organization: ENST, France X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Nov 1999 05:32:01 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-28T05:32:01+00:00 List-Id: From: Bob Leif To: Robert Dewar et al. Robert Dewar wrote, "we are certainly not in the mode of asking the community for neat ideas!' This process is called being market driven. You have just provided a very good explanation for a significant part of Ada's lack of commercial success. Most successful companies know the value of consumer input. A good sales and marketing organization reports back on what the customers are doing. It is quite possible, especially in software, to have your customers start the development of a product. Fortunately, ACT has interacted with its customers. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Dewar [mailto:robert_dewar@my-deja.com] Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 4:58 PM To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Subject: RE: Binding a type to a union. In article , comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote: > 3) An > informal process, at least initially, be set up where we the > users can make > suggestions for these "semi-standard extensions." The informal process is to convince at least one vendor to pursue your idea, at the moment the extensions are being driven primarily by customer input to vendors, we are certainly not in the mode of asking the community for neat ideas! Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.