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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9cccf6ef6149fdaa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: Ada Date: 2000/01/02 Message-ID: <386F7856.26134B3E@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 567429126 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38620350.48F8FC08@gecm.com> <386216c3.172629337@news.draper.com> <38690E47.7DBDC2D1@quadruscorp.com> <84j55h$efm$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 2 Jan 2000 16:09:52 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-02T16:09:52+00:00 List-Id: Richard D Riehle wrote: > Marin, > > Sounds as if you were visiting Fry's Electronics, our local Silicon > Valley Computer Circus. For serious literature on anything related > to computers, Fry's is not a good choice. Instead, we have a local > bookstore, Computer Literacy Bookshops (www.fatbran.com), which has > a representative selection of Ada books. Next time you are looking > for computer books in Silicon Valley, don't go to Fry's. Go to > Computer Literacy Bookshops. > Yes, that's where I was looking. They gave off the impression of being sort of the "Home Depot" of electronics stores. Maybe their selection is not the best, but they seemed to be sort of "Computer Stuff For The Masses". The books may not have beem the "serious" computer literature you have in mind, but they did have lots of shelves of stuff aimed at helping folks at a variety of levels to learn different languages/tools. My only point was that for Ada to improve its market position, it needs to be presented to "The Masses" in a way that makes it easy to adopt and use. That's why I think a whole shrink-wrapped kit for the PC/Windows environment would be a good idea. MDC -- ============================================================= Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - 1.800.555.3393 1015-116 Atlantic Boulevard, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 http://www.quadruscorp.com/ m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin." -- Allan Meltzer, Economist =============================================================