From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-16 10:19:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is ada dead? Message-ID: <2$l9ZPZiDd4x@eisner.encompasserve.org> References: <3B460DA9.C2965042@ix.netcom.com> <9ff447f2.0107061757.34ca0723@posting.google.com> <3B475678.C582735D@worldnet.att.net> <3b478165_3@news3.prserv.net> <3b48d207_1@news3.prserv.net> <3B51DD8A.9FBCA84F@ix.netcom.com> <9iv1pd$3va$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Organization: LJK Software Date: 16 Jul 2001 13:19:38 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 995303982 216.44.122.34 (Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:19:42 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:19:42 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10003 Date: 2001-07-16T13:19:38-05:00 List-Id: In article <9iv1pd$3va$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" writes: > One of the things that would go a long way to countering the misinformation > and overcoming the objections about tools, etc, would be to have an > inexpensive development toolkit sitting on the shelf next to the C++ > environments with equivalent & better features at a competitive price. But there is not one C compiler, there are many. That brings up another problem Ada faces, a lack of competition. Advocates are happy just to get one compiler for an environment, but there is never the competition that gets one vendor trying to outdo the other in features desired by the customer base. I believe that is also a shortcoming of Freeware, GPL, etc. Supporters are inclined to rally around the (single) flag than try to do something with broader appeal to the public.