From: Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:53:31 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2012-02-26T06:53:31-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16281078.142.1330268011388.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynll40> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ji8vlq$5d3$1@speranza.aioe.org>
On Friday, February 24, 2012 2:32:43 PM UTC-7, tmo...@acm.org wrote:
> > The obvious repercussion of this is that there weren't any cheap
> > compilers (say, in the US$50 - US$100 range) that you could run on
> > your PC at home, so no one could experiment with the language. Ada
> > essentially missed the boat in the PC revolution, and so was never
>
> The obvious lesson here is that advertising is supreme. There was
> in fact a $100 Ada that ran on DOS machines - I know because I bought
> it to try out this new language named Ada. I think the ad I saw was in
> Byte magazine, but it surely wasn't as much press as Lotus or Ovation(?)
> the never-did-exist system described in a cover article.
It probably wasn't legal to use the term "Ada" for an incomplete implementation and they were probably sued by the DoD.
If Borland bought it and re-sold it as Turbo-Ada who knows what would have happened?
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2012-02-17 17:22 Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?” Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 17:31 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 17:33 ` Fun with History: ³Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?² Bill Findlay
2012-02-23 13:29 ` Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?” Marco
2012-02-23 16:23 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-23 16:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-23 18:20 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-23 20:32 ` Phil Clayton
2012-02-24 1:14 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-02-24 21:32 ` Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented tmoran
2012-02-26 14:53 ` Marco [this message]
2012-02-26 18:02 ` J-P. Rosen
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2012-02-26 18:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-26 21:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-27 17:37 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-27 20:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-26 18:33 ` tmoran
2012-02-26 16:22 ` Marco
2012-03-06 1:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-07 10:33 ` Early availability of cheap Ada compilers (Was: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-03-07 12:43 ` Simon Clubley
2012-03-08 1:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 1:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 12:21 ` Simon Clubley
2012-03-09 2:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 9:00 ` anon
2012-03-08 15:32 ` Shark8
[not found] ` <5d2664b3-566a-40a5-910b-ef3460a5f363@do4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
2012-02-26 22:03 ` Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented J-P. Rosen
2012-02-27 1:29 ` tmoran
2012-02-26 22:06 ` Gautier write-only
2012-02-27 2:15 ` anon
2012-02-27 4:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-27 8:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-06 1:40 ` Randy Brukardt
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