From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Why Ada is Still Unpopular - vendors abandon products
Date: 1997/11/11
Date: 1997-11-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997Nov11.070042.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bcee43$55817be0$552e63c3@a1
In article <01bcee43$55817be0$552e63c3@a1>, "Pete" <budmanpete@btinternet.com> writes:
> Having just been told that the Ada cross-compiler that my company purchased
> three years ago is discontinued and will not be supported, I am not
> surprised that Ada is not yet a popular language. I had expected better of
> our 'reputable' supplier but I should have known better and stuck with C!
> With such an unstable supplier-base, users will stick with the lower
> cost/better supported languages.
Many things distinguish Ada from C, but vendors abandoning products
is not one of them.
Larry Kilgallen
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1997-11-11 0:00 ` Why Ada is Still Unpopular Terry L. Dunbar
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