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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake)
Date: 1997/09/05
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Matthew says

<<FWIW, I agree with you.  Unfortunately, by this success metric, Ada is
pretty much a failure.  Although, one could argue that insufficient time
has passed for the customer's decision to truly and completely be felt!>>

Not at all, do not equate success with market domination. Rolls Royce does
not sit around thinking they are a failure because they have only a sliver
of the market. Now sure they would like to sell more cars, but their goal
is to increase that sliver, not nudge out GM and Toyota!

Success for Ada is measured the same way. Many projects are highly successful
using Ada, and it has a significant sliver of users who are convinced that
they have found the Rolls Royce of programming language technology for their
needs, and hopefully these days not at Rolls Royce prices.

To increase the success of Ada, you want to focus on increasing the sliver,
don't spend time moaning over the fact that more copies of Visual C++ are
sold -- it's not a productive way to spend your time!