Re: Ada

[rracine@myremarq.com (Roger Racine)]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 09:39:57 -0800, "Marin D. Condic"
<mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> wrote:

>Robert Dewar wrote:
>> Part of the reason I think this makes less sense than you
>> think is that these days students and other likely consumers
>> of such a package expect to pay $0 for it, and are not about
>> to go and plunk down a credit card at Fry's or anywhere else
>> to buy a package of this kind!
>> 
>You may be right. The only way to really settle the question is to
>attempt to do it and see if it sells. That can be pretty expensive. But
>do keep in mind that Micro$oft is out there selling shrink-wrapped
>versions of Visual C++, etc. and people *do* plunk down credit cards to
>buy that.
>
>
>My desire is to see that Ada experiences growth in its application for
>commercial efforts. I think that is a goal most of us in this newsgroup
>would agree on. I think that a weakness Ada has when compared to some
>other languages is that there isn't a one-stop source where you can pick
>up everything you need for serious development. There are lots of things
>you can gather from all over the net and possibly cobble together a
>development environment with everything you need. If your garden variety
>developer were able to get the whole ball of wax in one location with
>everything glued together in a consistent manner, it might encourage
>more use.
>

I went to the local CompUSA store over the weekend and noticed that
Corel is now selling WordPerfect in a box that includes Linux.
Perhaps an Ada development environment combined with the operating
system might be popular enough to create a profit?

Maybe a cross-development system for the Palm Pilot included?

Roger Racine