From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Creating markets (long)
Date: 21 Sep 1994 15:32:51 +1000
Date: 1994-09-21T15:32:51+10:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35ogi3$a5r@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 35o0ct$1ep@felix.seas.gwu.edu
mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
>The point of my sardonic remark about was, of course, that they have it
>backwards. The question should have been "How many Mac programmers
>could we entice into using Ada?"
In support of Michael Feldman's basic point, I would argue that even he
is asking the wrong question. The right question is "how many Ada/Mac
compilers can we sell", and the question we can derive from that is
"how many programmers can we persuade to use Ada-on-the-Mac"? You don't
just want to sell Ada to existing Mac users, you want to sell the Mac
idea to existing Ada users, and you want to sell the Ada-on-a-Mac idea
to existing QuickBASIC-on-a-PC users amongst many many others.
>Don't ask me for details; I don't recall at this point, except that
>Apple was talking semi-seriously to somebody in the Ada industry
>but they just could not comes to terms. Oh well.
Oh, well, I suppose the bright side is that if there _had_ been a
popular Ada/Mac, Apple might never have decided to start the Dylan project.
--
"The complex-type shall be a simple-type." ISO 10206:1991 (Extended Pascal)
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-09-10 20:59 Creating markets (long) Michael Feldman
1994-09-10 23:19 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-11 17:44 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-11 0:32 ` Roger Labbe
1994-09-11 17:46 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-12 13:46 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-15 17:00 ` Richard Kenner
[not found] ` <359ujr$ep@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
1994-09-19 2:22 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-19 3:57 ` Robert Dewar
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 [this message]
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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