<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi all:<br>I disagree, there are commercial projects and industrial research projects using it, problem is normally are industrial TOP secrets.<br>Nobody else means anymore I don't agree.<br>Thing is normally they use their in-house compiler, Elego could find the tool chain set to sell to a given company but that company might have the most part of it already.<br>If all projects were open I'm sure M3 will be much an open place to have experience on.<br>I would go to work in a research project for veryfing compiler strategy for TOP industries consortium.<br>But we would need big hackers as you and brilliant minds as Hendrik, perhaps, maybe some spot for me there, but don't count with me.<br>Research labs were the main development sandbox for Modula-3 and continue to be for years to come.<br>Thanks in advance<br><br><br><br>--- El <b>jue, 7/3/13, Olaf Wagner
<i><wagner@elego.de></i></b> escribió:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>De: Olaf Wagner <wagner@elego.de><br>Asunto: Re: [M3devel] funding for one full time developer?<br>Para: "Jay K" <jay.krell@cornell.edu><br>CC: "m3devel" <m3devel@elegosoft.com><br>Fecha: jueves, 7 de marzo, 2013 07:49<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 08:05:43 +0000<br>Jay K <<a ymailto="mailto:jay.krell@cornell.edu" href="/mc/compose?to=jay.krell@cornell.edu">jay.krell@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br>> So...crazy self-serving question..is there enough<br>> interest and commercial use of Modula-3..such<br>> as to fund Modula-3 development? One full time developer? Me?<br>> <br>> I realize Critical Mass already tried.<br>> <br>> I do quite enjoy working on this stuff, but I don't have enough time for it. :(<br><br>Elego has never been able to find
any customer willing to pay some money<br>for M3 support or M3-related work.<br><br>From a commercial point of view, our M3 engagement hasn't been a<br>huge success ;-)<br><br>I love the language and I'd really like to see it more widely used,<br>but I'm afraid there won't be enough interest.<br><br>Olaf<br>-- <br>Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH -- <a href="http://www.elegosoft.com" target="_blank">http://www.elegosoft.com</a> <br> Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin, Germany<br>phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96 mobile: +49 177 2345 869 fax: +49 30 23 45 86 95<br>Geschäftsführer: Michael Diers, Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin<br>Handelregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr: DE163214194<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>