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 16:36:41 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 newscripting/prototypinglanguage) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 03:35:52 +0400 (MSD) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <10760hq4hahaa25@corp.supernews.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 1081294527 77922 212.85.156.195 (6 Apr 2004 23:35:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 23:35:27 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <10760hq4hahaa25@corp.supernews.com>; from Randy Brukardt at Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:17:05 -0500 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:6790 Date: 2004-04-07T03:35:52+04:00 Randy Brukardt wrote: >I saw a lot of >companies with good, solid products (including us) get run over by companies >with flashy marketing and barely functional products. What were they doing >better? They wern't doing better, they were doing differently. They targeted not individual customers, but a kind of "virtual customer" - a weighted mixture of real customers and their needs, which weren't always strictly relevant to software or even any computing. > It wasn't giving the customer anything real, but rather giving them >the *illusion* of some benefit. Yes, they were giving little to real (in common or material sense) customer, but they were giving enough to that virtual customer (which transcripts as illusion to real ones). And they succeeded because that virtual customer pays much more than real individuals. >That's what sells Java, Visual Basic, etc. today. I think that although Java may be considered as NetBasic, nevertheless it is a mistake to think of them as of essentially the same thing in this aspect. Basic, as a language, was introduced and had their users long before Visual Basic emerged. Then, Visual Basic was never presented with such a hype and pressure; for example there weren't attempts to replace all programming languages in CS courses with Visual Basic. >So good software is doomed. Well, not suprisingly, because "software" is a bad term and it was always wrong to apply the adjective "good" to it. It is a program or system that can be good, but not "software". Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia