Re: Compiler business prospects

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:40:05 +0100, Ludovic Brenta  
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:
> No. The FUD is in thinking *a priori* that this business model is
> "impossible" and presenting that as a "fact".
One talks about an absolute appreciation, the other about a practical  
appreciation.

It just happens that although possible, this is hardly done and unlikely  
to work for most. People arguing that's impossible are wrong about the  
whole, true, while people arguing that's possible, are wrong about  
effectiveness too, when they forget to provide any kind of evaluation  
(like providing probability of success, which is known to be very‑very low  
with that model).

It happens too, most people complaining about that fact, will fall in the  
common case where it's not possible. If that was more likely possible,  
believe people who mean they would be the first glad to go for the  
adventure (I'm of these ones too :-P ).

May be you are both right and both wrong and precision was lacking (Ada  
designers failing to provide relevant specifications, what a shame :-(    
... just teasing :-P ).

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