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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 115aec,f41f1f25333fa601 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3ca574fc2007430 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry Date: 1996/12/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 202816961 references: <55ea3g$m1j@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3280DA96.15FB@hso.link.com> <1996Nov6.210957.3070@ole.cdac.com> <5683sk$bsc@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <586a40$tab@morse.satech.net.au> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime Date: 1996-12-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Michael said "Some of you guys should go get a job designing micro systems for a consumer market before you spout nonsense about "technology curves"." You are confused, no one is saying that "technology curves" mean that 4-bit and 8-bit devices will disappear any time soon, or for that matter ever. That's not what we were discussing, we were discussing the question of whether there is a viable market for Ada on such devices. To me it is clear that the answer is no, and I guess other Ada vendors are not rushing to dispute this evaluation. I continue to think that an implementation of Ada would be practical on 8-bit devices, but I also continue to think that it will not happen, because there is no basis for thinking that there is an adequate market to support such a product.