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Date: 5 Jun 93 15:14:40 GMT
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!linus.mitre.org!mwunix.mitre.org!m23588@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Richard Conn)
Subject: Re: Data shows Top 50 Software Vendors not using Ada
Message-ID: <1993Jun5.151440.12792@linus.mitre.org>
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In article <1993Jun4.202343.26416@dbased.nuo.dec.com>, brett@digits.enet.dec.co
m (Bevin R. Brett) writes:
|> 
|> In article <1993Jun4.130219.27569@linus.mitre.org>, m23588@mwunix.mitre.org 
(Richard Conn) writes...
|> 
|> >about 70% Ada and 30% C++, and in the archives my work is 100% C (there are
|> >no Ada compilers on the DEC-20 or the DEC ALPHA, altho the ALPHA is suppose
d
|> >to get one, I hear).
|> 
|> >Rick Conn
|> 
|> 
|> The DEC Ada V3.0 for OpenVMS AXP compiler  [Hey, don't blame me for the
|> 					    Trademark laws or product names :-)
]
|> is shipping today, has been for months.  Unlike the DEC Ada V3.0 for OpenVMS
 VAX
|> compiler, it does not have the Professional Development Option available yet
,
|> but we expect that to be in V3.1 (that is the Smart Recompilation stuff etc.
)
|> 
|> 
|> Like all the DEC Ada compilers, it is available via our campus-wide licensin
g
|> program for media-cost [ie: free] to qualifying academic institutions.  Our
|> Mips Ultrix product does very well in this space.
|> 
|> 
|> The DEC Ada V3.0 for OSF/1 AXP compiler is currently being field tested.
|> 
|> 
|> /Bevin
|> DEC Ada team
Great news, Bevin.  Thank you very much ... I'll look forward to it with
relish.  WUARCHIVE is the base I'm working from for this, and it is running
OSF/1.  I think WUSTL has the appropriate agreement in place.

Rick