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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada saved by gnat (was Re: Where's Aetech?)
Date: 1995/04/07
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organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Date: 1995-04-07T00:00:00+00:00
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tmoran says:

"The important question is not even 'does the GNAT experience
bring people to Ada', but 'how many people does GNAT bring to Ada
vs how many might have been attracted by a different way (eg
carefully researched and directed advertising, bindings, etc)'
of spending a similar amount of money.  ie, bang for the buck.
  We need not hundreds of folks converted to Ada, but tens of
thousands."

True enough, and we will have to see how effective GNAT is in this respect.
Probably we are somewhere in between now.

Note however, that directed advertising, or bindings  would not have any
effect whatsoever in the academic environment, where the lack of easily
downloadable free stuff has been a definite impediment in the past.