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Subject: What's Ada for: survey results
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A few weeks ago, I posted a survey to this group.  I've been trying to
discover how successful Ada will be in the *COMMERCIAL* marketplace.
(The *MILITARY* success of Ada is assured by DoD edict.)

Thanks to those people who answered.  I only received a few replies
(about a half dozen).  Either we've got mailer problems, or hardly
anybody has plans!

Everyone who responded was enthusiastic, but these points were made:

	* need Ada compilers for more machines
	* existing compilers too slow
	* not sure strong typing is a good idea
	* also evaluating Pascal, C, and Modula-2
	* there should be a strong market for Ada packages,
	  for instances interfaces to SPSS.
	* package piracy should not be a serious problem

I suspect that the commercial market for Ada would be stronger if some
validated compilers were available.

Feel free to comment: the more, the merrier!


-- Bob Hofkin

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