From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 25 Oct 91 00:37:40 GMT From: pattis@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis) Subject: Re: Why ADA is not prevalent yet? Message-ID: <1991Oct25.003740.6546@beaver.cs.washington.edu> List-Id: Borland would write a Turbo-Ada if they thought it were profitable. They may be doing so, although I would guess not. Of course, because of Ada's standarization, they would have difficulty creating proprietary features that would lock users into their system. Maybe becaue of Ada's complexity, it wouldn't be so "turbo". Maybe when Intel's architecture becomes obsolete, Turbo-Pascal, etc. will pass away ;). Onto another topic: Ada Prices. I'm just back from Tri-Ada where various vendors announced new educational prices. I will post a longer, more complete message early next week. Among the most impressive is a complete restructuring of Alsys's educational pricing. Single copies to Faculty/Staff/Students of FirstAda and MacAda are now $144.99 (these are the complete systems previously sold, not "educational versions"). In quantities of 26-50 (only one of many ranges in their discount structure) the price is $100 each. For these site licenses, the University gets only 1 copy of the software/documentation, but is allowed to duplicate it for student purchasers. Support is supplied to a faculty contact, not the individual purchasers. Single copies of their workstation/mainframe compilers (RS/6000, DECStation/MIPS, VAX/VMS, SUN-3/4, and HP9000/300 are now under $600. The complete story is coming soon. But I thought this was good news to spread around immediately. Meridian and Janus are yet to respond. Rich Pattis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard E. Pattis "Programming languages are like Department of Computer Science pizzas - they come in only "too" and Engineering sizes: too big and too small."