Re: Pricing Ada out of Education

[pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis)]

In article <9852@as0c.sei.cmu.edu>, ae@sei.cmu.edu (Arthur Evans) writes:
> If you are a college or university looking for an Ada compiler, by all
> means talk with the folks at Tartan.  They are giving away, *FREE*, Ada
> compilers for VAX/VMS and Sun-3 running Unix.  They charge for support.
> Call Susan Englert for details, at 412-856-3600.
> 

Art should have written, "They *CHARGE* for support."  I think that Tartan
has taken a step in the right direction, but it still costs about $1K-$4K
to *USE* their compiler (at least last time I checked, right after their
announcement).

I have recently written to an SEI group involved in kickstarting Ada in
education, suggesting that someone (compiler vendors, DoD, etc) subsidize
compiler use in education by allowing schools with a genuine interest to
use an Ada compiler, absolutely *FREE OF CHARGES*, for a year.

Rich Pattis