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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,39c299e1a336f754 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Scott Stallcup Subject: Re: Ada for the Mac Date: 1996/09/11 Message-ID: <32372F8A.6490@stsci.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 180024375 references: <32237B8F.6DC7@xmission.com> <00001a73+000033a9@msn.com> <322ED21A.678@thomsoft.com> <01bb9e89.5ee38da0$fc899dc0@fielding.east.alsys.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Space Telescope Science Institute mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Date: 1996-09-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Neil O'Brien wrote: > > Market forces, the original compiler was bought in too small a quantity to > justify upgrading to System 7. > > ... we never upgraded because it was originally a product too few customers > wanted. ... > I used the Alsys Mac Ada 83 compiler about 5 years ago (when Alsys claimed to support it). The compiler was full of bugs. I reported several bugs and sent them small simple example code which showed the bugs. They never fixed any of them. They never advertised the product in any of the Macintosh publications, developer magazines, etc. I found that many of the Alsys user support and sales people didn't even know that Alsys sold a Mac compiler. The Alsys Mac compiler failed because Alsys didn't market and support the product ! --------------------------------- Scott Stallcup Space Telescope Science Institute