[CMake-Promote] world domination is near ;-)

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Yes, seeding at universities is one of the 3 well-understood vectors for 
spreading a technology:

1) converting techies, people who hang out in open source communities 
and who think programming languages are kewl, etc.
2) converting suits, people who run companies, have hire / fire power, 
and can force adoption decisions
3) converting educators, who teach the students, who then infect 
industry with what they learned

Marketing campaigns to address each key group are different.  Academics, 
for instance, often have "snobbery" requirements.  Something I'd worry 
about more for a programming language, like Python or Chicken Scheme, 
than a build system.  I think even academics expect a build system to be 
practical.  Well at least, everyone but the build system academics :-), 
but there aren't enough of those to be concerned about 'em.

Suits don't like playful / silly stuff.  Techies eat it up, and most 
academics like it too.

Anyways, have at it!

Cheers,
Brandon Van Every


Andy Cedilnik wrote:
> Hello Alex,
>
> This is an excellent idea. I should talk to some of my old professors
> to do something similar at my university.
>
> Andy
>
> On 11/20/06, Alexander Neundorf <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> just wanted to let you know, that today I introduced my (small) group 
>> of students (1st term electrical engineering), who are learning to 
>> program in C, to programming under Linux.
>> That is, Kate + gcc + Konqueror + guess what, CMake :-)
>> Actually, is there any alternative ?
>>
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