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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-06 16:29:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 02:54:30 +0400 (MSD) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <4072E65F.8000107@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1081291995 72277 212.85.156.195 (6 Apr 2004 22:53:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:53:15 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <4072E65F.8000107@noplace.com>; from Marin David Condic at Tue, 06 Apr 2004 17:18:43 GMT X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6789 Date: 2004-04-07T02:54:30+04:00 Marin David Condic wrote: >Cell phone apps are a prime opportunity in a growing field. I'm not sure >that I'd vote for that one because the number of end-users may be >astronomical, but are the number of *developers* going to be that large? >Unclear at this point. Well, being somehow involved in that field (specifically, Symbian smartphones), and therefore having glanced at various developers forums (such as Nokia and SonyEricsson forums and some others) I can guess that there are perhaps thousands or even (less likely) tens of thousands, but certainly not hundreds of thousands developers of this kind; but what should be stressed about that population of developers is that their average professional level isn't high, as a rule - a competent programmer is a rare bird there. Then, this area is highly monopolized: there are several giants (Nokia, Sony(/Ericsson) and Motorola at first place) who practically determine all possibilities. This is the current picture (as I see it -:) . Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia