Re: verdix kisses off Ada

[agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!ogicse!ver dix!brucej@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Bruce Jones)]

In article <1993May21.162150.20535@seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael
 Feldman) writes:
>A dollar can only be spent once. If the resources aren't there to build bigger
>Ada markets, how are they available to build C/C++ compilers? 

Mike, its not just a question of dollars, the reason is that the resources 
are different.  The resources needed to build a C/C++ compiler is a team 
of highly skilled compiler engineers.  Verdix has such a team.  You can't
just go buy these people, you have to build the team slowly over time.  

I don't know what resources are needed to build a bigger Ada market, but then
I'm just one of the compiler engineers. I am sure that it takes more than
just money.  I suspect that GNU Ada and Ada 9x will do more to increase 
the size of the Ada market than anything we vendors might do.

	-- brucej