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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,42490cad53ee37fa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.14.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <87f5a614.0503121108.5b245eaf@posting.google.com> <87f5a614.0503130444.66e658e4@posting.google.com> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:56:12 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Mar 2005 15:56:00 MET NNTP-Posting-Host: cbe2dbf1.newsread2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=^b On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:22:26 -0500, Stephen Leake wrote: > Rod Chapman made an interesting point. Ada has less than 0.1% of the > programmer market. BMW has less than 0.1% of the car market. Is BMW a > failure, or a successful niche player? Ada is a successful niche > player. I think this is rather an unfortunate analogy. BMW does not produce universal cars, at least in terms of price and fuel consumption. On the contrary, Ada was thought as a universal language in all respects. It is also quite inexpensive now (excluding embedded platforms.) So 0.1% of the language market should be definitely counted as a failure, especially if we look at WHAT for "languages" are traded there. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de