From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Creating markets (long)
Date: 18 Sep 1994 23:57:53 -0400
Date: 1994-09-18T23:57:53-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35j281$reo@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 35isl0$q6a@felix.seas.gwu.edu
How many Ada programmers do you know who use Macs?
Well that's a little misleading. THe very real marketing question you can
ask is how many developers or programmers use Macs in *any* language. THe
answer is very few, and going hand in hand with this is the observable
fact that the market for C compilers on the Mac is very small. It is no
surprise that a small slice of a very small pie is not very tasty.
There is of course some value in the educational environment of Mac based
compilers, but as Mike likes to constantly remind us, educational folks
don't care to spend much money on software. For educational use, for
example, GNAT on the MAC would be very nice, and it would be nice to see
it happen, but I would guess that "real" use of GNAT on the Mac would be
slim compared to other, more programming development oriented, systems.
And Mike, before you try to figure out how a company can make money selling
compilers to students, just remember that Borland is going broke, despite
the fact that it has an essentially massive control of the educational
compiler market.
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1994-09-10 20:59 Creating markets (long) Michael Feldman
1994-09-10 23:19 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-11 17:44 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-11 0:32 ` Roger Labbe
1994-09-11 17:46 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-12 13:46 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-15 17:00 ` Richard Kenner
[not found] ` <359ujr$ep@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
1994-09-19 2:22 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-19 3:57 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1994-09-22 16:19 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-25 12:59 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1994-09-19 13:59 ` James Hopper
1994-09-21 0:57 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-21 5:32 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1994-09-27 4:30 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-19 14:36 ` James Hopper
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1994-09-19 21:37 Michael Hagerty
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