On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 22:36:08 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/27/2017 8:57 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
It's much better to have a monopoly of some niche or set of
niches and to use energy from success to expand out from
there, than to have a small market share of an enormous market.
Back in the 80's, Zortech made a killing because we had the
only C++ compiler that would generate 16 bit Windows code.
I found this out by asking the sales guys what feature of ZTC++
was closing the deal - X, Y, Z, all the features I held dear.
They'd say nope. Customers wanted to use C++ for Win16, ZTC++
supported that, sold!
I learned a lot from that.
That a product which fulfils a need in a total void sells? No
disrespect, but aint it a bit tautological ? Can you find a
similar void today which is to be filled by D ? Better yet can
you create one ?
