Re: Download counts of assemblers.

"rhyde@xxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

Well, like I said, I don't believe that there are 10,000 real copies of
HLA being downloaded each month. I don't have any theories other than
automata.


You seem to forget that there is a nearly unlimited resource of
people who don't want to learn assembly programming and HLA is
the perfect product for them. I suppose, they even would use it
if they had to pay for it. Why don't you ask for an email
feedback in your distribution, maybe with a fill in form
which asks about:

- were there any problems installing HLA
- for what purpose did you intend to use HLA
- was HLA usable for this purpose
- if not, what has to be added to HLA to make it usable for this purpose
- what additional features would you like to see in HLA
- why did you choose HLA and not a real assembler

Even if only 1% gives you feed back, it still would be useful
information. I also would like to see the answers, especially
for the last question (even if you replace "real" by "an other").
.

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