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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:30:56 -0500
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Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote in message
<7vptwccqfs.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no>...

>And preferably pay up front for the develoment of the compiler....  OK
>strategy if you sell few expensive development systems, probably not a
>good strategy to penetrate the mass market.


The companies that tried to penatrate the mass market with Ada are
either out of business (Supersoft, Artek, Meridian), have changed
product lines to move away from the mass market (RR Software), or
changed business models (Aonix). A lot of people lost a lot of money
trying to do that, and it has always failed. Here, I have to agree with
Robert: if you think there is some way to make a viable business out of
mass market Ada, feel free to take your own money and start a company to
do it. Otherwise, stop whining.

I've spent 22 years trying to sell Ada to the masses, and primarily all
I have to show for it is a substantial debt. You can argue that RRS has
done this or that wrong (and that's probably true), but I dare anyone
here to do it better on the money we had available. Unless some Ada
stalwart wins a $100 million Powerball jackpot, I very much doubt that
will change.

            Randy Brukardt
            R.R. Software, Inc.