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=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 19 Sep 91 18:32:37 GMT From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!milton!mfel dman@gatech.edu (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: Meridian compatable with Macintosh system 7? Message-ID: <1991Sep19.183237.22042@milton.u.washington.edu> List-Id: In article <1991Sep19.134825.10076@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov> robichau@freedom.msfc .nasa.gov (Paul Robichaux) writes: > >About a month ago, the Meridian sales rep who handles government/contractor >sales in Georgia told me in a phone conversation that Meridian *does not* plan >to support the Macintosh compiler any further; i.e., they will NOT devote >resources to things like support for new versions of the O/S. > >His claim was that they'd only sold about 300 copies of the Mac version, and >that such a small number meant their resources would be more productively >invested elsewhere. > I have heard similar things from Meridian principals. This is really a cryin' shame, because Meridian has a decent Mac system as a starting point. It is all too typical of the Ada business that companies won't make much investment in developing a market. As an educator who likes and promotes using Ada in curricula, I hear over and over that one of the things really holding Ada back in education is the lack of a Mac system suitable for education. An MPW-based system is OK for serious work, but I wouldn't wish it on beginning students. The Ada world needs its Think Pascal or MetroWerks Modula-2. Can anyone help generate ideas about how we can get one? Maybe Meridian would like to deal their system off to someone who'd like to repackage it? Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael B. Feldman Visiting Professor 1991-92 Professor Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Engrg. Dept. of Elect. Engrg. and Comp. Sci. University of Washington FR-35 The George Washington University Seattle, WA 98105 Washington, DC 20052 (206) 685-1376 (voice) (202) 994-5253 (voice) (206) 543-2969 (fax) (202) 994-5296 (fax) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------