From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Creating markets (long)
Date: 27 Sep 1994 00:30:17 -0400
Date: 1994-09-27T00:30:17-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36874p$4ro@felix.seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 35ogi3$a5r@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au
In article <35ogi3$a5r@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>,
Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> wrote:
>mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
>>The point of my sardonic remark about was, of course, that they have it
>>backwards. The question should have been "How many Mac programmers
>>could we entice into using Ada?"
>
>In support of Michael Feldman's basic point, I would argue that even he
>is asking the wrong question. The right question is "how many Ada/Mac
>compilers can we sell", and the question we can derive from that is
>"how many programmers can we persuade to use Ada-on-the-Mac"? You don't
>just want to sell Ada to existing Mac users, you want to sell the Mac
>idea to existing Ada users, and you want to sell the Ada-on-a-Mac idea
>to existing QuickBASIC-on-a-PC users amongst many many others.
Well, sure. The diehard Mac fan in me certainly won't dispute this
point. On the other hand, I'd have settled for the Ada companies
selling _Ada_, without worrying about selling Apple's hardware for
them. Now, had there been a _real_ alliance between Apple and an
Ada vendor, where each benefited from the other's involvement...
Sigh...pipe dreams...
Mike Feldman
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-09-10 20:59 Creating markets (long) Michael Feldman
1994-09-10 23:19 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-11 17:44 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-11 0:32 ` Roger Labbe
1994-09-11 17:46 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-12 13:46 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-15 17:00 ` Richard Kenner
[not found] ` <359ujr$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
1994-09-27 4:30 ` Michael Feldman [this message]
1994-09-19 14:36 ` James Hopper
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1994-09-19 21:37 Michael Hagerty
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