Re: Bye-bye Ada ?

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

I hear tell that someone is already working on that. I'd prefer to do
something a bit more original so as not to duplicate efforts - unless I
thought I could do something better. (In this case, I doubt I'd be able to
bring anything fresh to the table.)

Besides, CASE tools and other programming aids are a tough market. There's a
highly elastic demand and a small number of people (with respect to more
general software) who can actually make use of the end product. It would be
far better to pick some more general industry (like auto repair shops or
beauty parlors or something "professional" like doctors or lawyers) and
research what they'd potentially be able to use to automate their business
more. Develop something for a narrower industry that has a large software
component and some other sort of value-added product (like an integrated
cash register or some on-line service - that's where you make the *real*
money) and you've got something where the big players aren't going to drive
you out of the market.

Also, I think that developing things besides CASE tools is a better way to
promulgate Ada usage. There are already sufficient tools available for Ada
that will allow someone to get the job done, so now go out and find the job.
The end user isn't going to care that you used Ada, so you've got no
resistance to overcome. If you build something that starts gaining
widespread use in some industry other folks will want to play in that
ballpark and you've established the groundrules - use Ada. And if using Ada
is as wonderful as we keep claiming it is, others will want to follow
because you're building better software at a lower price.

MDC
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chris.danx <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> What about an open source fully integrated CASE environment?
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