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From: tsikes@netcom.com (Terry Sikes)
Subject: Re: Ada
Date: 2000/01/06
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Date: 2000-01-06T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <3874CB8B.2613A67F@easystreet.com>,
Al Christians  <achrist@easystreet.com> wrote:
>Terry Sikes wrote:

>> 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?

Right, I personally wouldn't count someone who writes some Excel
(VBScript) macros for an accounting spreadsheet as a "software
developer".  I think VBScript isn't too bad for that level of
development, and that something (even 1/2;) as complex as Ada would
drive those users away.

At any rate, its pretty academic since probably 90%+ of those folk are
using MS Office, and its unlikely the scripting language there will
change anytime soon...  (I wonder what the equivalent is for Star
Office...?)

I'd guess there's a large group of self-taught web developers as well,
that might be a more fertile ground for Unix/Linux based tools.

Terry
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