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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:10:34 +0800 From: Adrian Hoe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <412d993e_2@news.tm.net.my> <412DCEF9.8020201@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <412DCEF9.8020201@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.193.141 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.193.141 Message-ID: <412eeb64_2@news.tm.net.my> X-Trace: news.tm.net.my 1093593956 219.95.193.141 (27 Aug 2004 16:05:56 +0800) Organization: TMnet Malaysia Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!news1.tm.net.my!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3071 Date: 2004-08-27T16:10:34+08:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Here's the problem: We can say "That's not fair!" or "That's not right!" > all we want, but reality can be a real bitch sometimes. If you don't > "market" the language in some manner, nobody knows about it or has any > reason to believe it is superior to what they *do* know about. Shoving > the lamp under a bushel basket doesn't do much good. > > MDC > > Adrian Hoe wrote: > >> >> People who chose a programming language based on its popularity like >> advertisement and loud noisy announcement, are those have no technical >> merit in evaluating the programming language. >> > But, what did GNAT, Aonix, Intermetrics, Greenhill and other Ada compiler vendors do? They did nothing to promote Ada. -- Adrian Hoe m a i l b o x AT a d r i a n h o e . c o m