Re: Meridian Ada Compiler Evaluation

[ogicse!milton!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)]

In article <9109101316.AA04145@lanmail.NCSC.NAVY.MIL> Brown_John@LANMAIL.NCSC.N
AVY.MIL writes:
>Mark Hutchison [CSC] writes:
>>I'm taking an Ada class at the local university.  They point you at 
>>the Meridian Ada compiler for an IBM PC for $91.
>>
>>Is it worth it?
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>for I/O and for DOS services, and generics.  All in all, it met our 
>needs for the class and was a buy at $150.  (I don't know what the 
>current price is.)
>
The current "onesies" price is still $149. for students. Meridian gives
reductions to students at schools that've bought a site license for
school-owned machines.

We've used this compiler - in successive versions - for about 4 years
at both George Washington Univ. (my permanent home) and the Univ. of
Washington (where I'm visiting). Decent, stable system. Certainly
worth its price. For full 386 support you need to pay much bigger
bucks.

Mike Feldman
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