From: agate!library.ucla.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.s ei.cmu.edu!firth@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Robert Firth)
Subject: Re: TRI-Ada '94 Topics
Date: 9 Sep 93 18:25:16 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Sep9.142516.17296@sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In article <2683ob$100@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wr
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>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.
But, Robert, there surely is a secret formula. Or are we to suppose there
was an immense, unsatisfied demand for hula hoops, pet rocks, and repulsive
purple dinosaurs? (Not to mention object-oriented programming.) Commodities
don;t find markets; they create them. (I think this is called Say's Law, by
the way.)
However, if we really want Ada to sell like hot cakes, maybe we should
ask Sega to tell us how they marketed Sonic the Hedgehog?
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