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- From: danforth@riacs.edu (Douglas G. Danforth)
- Subject: Computer Language Market Survey
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.000555.5013@riacs.edu>
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- Organization: RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 00:05:55 GMT
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- COMPUTER LANGUAGE MARKET SURVEY
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- (The purpose of this message is to assess a market. If this is a
- breach of etiquette for this news group then please let me know.)
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- reply to: danforth@riacs.edu
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- I have an opportunity to sell and support a "new" computer language for the
- PC market (386 and up). The language has been in existence since 1978 and is
- well documented with many support tools that are polished and work. The
- language is truely machine independent (designed that way from the beginning)
- and runs on a variety of mainframe, mini, and workstation machines. It is not
- yet in the PC market, hence the opportunity.
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- The question I have for the readers of this news group is:
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- WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO BUY SUCH A LANGUAGE?
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- Before you can answer I need to supply you with some more information.
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- (1) Possible competitor of C++.
- (a) strongly typed language.
- (b) classes.
- (c) inheritance.
- (d) garbage collection.
- (e) generic procedures.
- (f) dynamic linking.
- (g) i/o part of the language.
- (h) modules and information hiding.
- (i) foreign language interface to other languages (C).
- (j) exception handling.
- (k) coroutines.
- (l) character strings part of the language.
- (2) Text editor.
- (3) Source level debugger.
- (4) Compiler written in the language.
- (5) Relational database system written in the language.
- (6) Used by a major chip design company.
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- QUESTIONS
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- [1] Do you use C? Yes [ ] No [ ]
- Do you like it? Yes [ ] No [ ] N/A [ ]
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- [2] Do you use C++? Yes [ ] No [ ]
- Do you like it? Yes [ ] No [ ] N/A [ ]
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- [3] Would you be willing to try a new language?
- Yes [ ] No [ ]
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- [4] Is telephone support of a language and its tools important to you?
- Yes [ ] No [ ] N/A [ ]
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- [5] What characteristics of a language are most important to you?
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- [6] What characteristics of programming tools are most important to you?
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- [7] General comments and suggestions:
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