Re: [BLACKBOX] Years ahead of its time

From: [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 21:01:27 -0400

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> 2. Marketing

Marketing would mean millions of $ plus a large company such as Microsoft
or Sun. Anything marketed by those giants would get through regardless of
its intrinsic value.

Turbo Pascal was one of those rare examples to the contrary. It was a
perfect hit at the time of the opportunity created by the market void. So
was Microsoft itself. The window of opportunity then closed because the
market became crowded.

Another such example was C. The C++ on the other hand was backed up by a
large company and therefore it became successful despite its design.

Oberon Microsystems deserve their share of blame for their lack of
marketing skills, but frankly they had no chance anyway. They tried.
There was Oberon Tribune. It was a nice magazine printed on a glossy
paper. Very nice. Had it been printed by Microsoft, it would probably be
different.

N.Wirth had something to say in his recent article. Some words of truth
were also issued by Michael Pont in his excellent book on time-triggered
embedded programming. Search the net, get the book, read what he is saying
about programming industry.
http://www.le.ac.uk/eg/mjp9/ --> the book can be downloaded in PDF.

It is an excellent book worth reading despite the fact that M.Pont
writes in C. But it is good C. Michael's take is very close to N.Wirth
teachings.

Wojtek

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