From: holmes@MIMSY.CS.UMD.EDU (Holmes S. Liao)
Subject: Re: How to Make Ada more widely used?
Date: 4 Jun 93 04:57:12 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68202@mimsy.umd.edu> (raw)
In article <SRCTRAN.93Jun2233244@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory
Aharonian) writes:
>
> And to beat a dead horse, Ada will remain a dead, niche language as
>long as IBM refuses to give it as much attention as it does C++ and Smalltalk.
Well, I agree with what you said about free market and Ada mandate. But
I fail to see why IBM's endorsement to Ada has anything to do with this.
For one thing: IBM didn't endorse Unix nor Windows. Any yet look at them on
the market today. (I'm not saying Unix and Windows are on the same level. :-)
holmes liao
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1993-06-04 4:57 Holmes S. Liao [this message]
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1993-06-15 18:06 How to Make Ada more widely used? John Bollenbacher
1993-06-12 16:24 Bjarne Stroustrup
1993-06-12 14:53 Gregory Aharonian
1993-06-11 15:38 Charles H. Sampson
1993-06-10 2:05 Michael Feldman
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