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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ada
Date: 2000/01/05
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In article <84tj1p$r2g$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net>,
  tsikes@netcom.com (Terry Sikes) wrote:

> o  embedded systems

This is a very small sliver of the total development market

> o  Unix/mainframe server-side  (this has picked up recently;)

Still a small player development wise compared to PC's

> o  Mac

This is a VERY small fraction of the total PC development
effort.

> o  Linux

Getting larger, but still dwarfed by PC's

> I think you're underestimating the amount of C/C++ even on the
> Windows side, also.

Most university trained people *over* estimate the amount of
C and C++, precisely because they don't know the widely
used languages (COBOL and Visual Basic).


> Bill has some level of vested interest in promoting VB,
> after all.

Well I don't think he cares too much if people use VB or
visual C++. What is interesting about his figures is the
Delphi and Java figures, which he *does* care about :-)


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