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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham 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: 2004-04-16 13:00:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for it References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <406EB6D2.8030801@noplace.com> <87d66pyw1g.fsf@insalien.org> <406EEC35.7040109@noplace.com> <874qs0zvy1.fsf@insalien.org> <87zn9sygtj.fsf@insalien.org> <407FC30D.1070109@noplace.com> <2004416-15013-731621b@foorum> In-Reply-To: <2004416-15013-731621b@foorum> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:45:32 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1082144726 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:45:26 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:45:26 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7224 Date: 2004-04-16T15:45:32-04:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Marin, ... > The problem is that the companies that make up this high-profile > market are quite secretive, and do not normally advertise that they > use Ada; they just do it with the understanding that Ada is a > competitive weapon in their arsenal. ... Maybe we just need to get someone to fund some prime time TV advertisments along the lines of (perhaps in a Russian accent): "PSSST! Do you want to know a secret? It's a pretty good secret.. Did you know that XYZZY Corp. uses Ada? You can too. Stay tuned to find out why and how... " IBM could afford to do something like that. But IBM, AFAIK, doesn't yet realize the potential for Ada either. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk