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From: Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>
Subject: Re: Ada
Date: 2000/01/06
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Terry Sikes wrote:
> 
> >This same talk put Visual basic at about 50% of
> >PC development, and that also sounds about right to me,
> >with C/C++ being about 15%.
> 
> 50% of Windows (not PC) development, even if true, ignores major
> market segments:
> 

In one of Capers Jones's books, he mentions many millions of workers
whose job description is not 'software developer' who spend some part 
of their work week developing software anyway.  VB might have a very 
large market share among that group of informal developers.    

Should the developers of Ada language products address the needs of 
that group?


Al