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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53920231df6ca8f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-19 16:33:41 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Creating markets (long) Date: 18 Sep 1994 23:57:53 -0400 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <35j281$reo@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <34t6od$9mo@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <351m34$1706@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <359ujr$ep@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <35isl0$q6a@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1994-09-18T23:57:53-04:00 List-Id: 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.