Re: TRI-Ada '94 Topics

[seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)]

In article <2683ob$100@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wr
ites:
>Mike Feldman says yes! yes! yes! to the suggestion of Tucker talking about
>Intermetrics marketing efforts for C.
>
>I guess this is another instance of desparately wanting there to be a simple
>formula hiding around the corner, and if only we knew the secret formula (i.e.
>the one that Tuck will reveal in this amazing keynote address), then all will
>be well, since we can just adopt that marketing approach and Ada will seel
>like hotcakes.
>
>All this reminds me why I mistrust companies whose marketing strategies are'
>run by technical people!
>
>Of course it's too bad that Mike isn't right in his fantasy, it would be
>so nice!
>
>(Gee, I guess the only reason IBM failed with PL/1 was that they didn't ask
>Intermetrics how to market it :-)
>
Sigh...Robert, Greg posted something sarcastic. He was implying that
Intermetrics invests more in marketing its C stuff than its Ada stuff.
I answered in an equally sarcastic vein. By not quoting the original
parts of the note, Robert, just paraphrasing out of context, you do the
original posters a real disservice.

The net serves as a reasonable outlet for peoples' frustrations. Your
posts are almost always negative when, in fact, you could make some very
constructive contributions to the debate out here. We kid around a lot;
there's a lot of gallows humor. But there are constructive discussions,
too. I don't like being quoted so thoroughly out of context, especially
when the original was more in the nature of a sarcastic joke.

Tell us how _you_ would do it, Robert.

Mike Feldman