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=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dave Wood Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/04/12 Message-ID: <33507CAC.5B9E@aonix.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 234465510 Cache-Post-Path: optional.cts.com!unknown@199.164.191.83 References: <5ih6i9$oct$1@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu> <5il225$8e3$9@halon.vggas.com> Organization: Aonix Reply-To: dpw@aonix.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Steve Summit wrote: > > I'm always pleasantly surprised to see a C compiler in a computer > store, or a C book in a general bookstore, but I wouldn't blame > either of these stores for not carrying C titles (let alone Ada), > because they're not exactly mass-market. Indeed, CompUSA and their ilk will carry *anything* so long as the supplier is willing to be extorted into buying shelf space away from products from Microsoft and other quasi-monopolies. Ada suppliers know that their marketing and distribution dollars are better spent on direct sales channels, because, as Mr. Summit correctly points out, compilers aren't exactly mass market items. Can you imagine trying to get serious technical information from some CompUSA drone? Selling a sophisticated development environment to real engineers with complex needs and questions is a different beast from selling Reader Rabbit or TurboTax. In fact, while retail megastores are likely to carry some C compilers, they're much less likely to carry some of the subsidiary tools you will want in your arsenal, like CM tools, object modeling tools, and (for C/C++ anyway) tools to help you track down the sources of trashed memory. As such, you most likely need to go to a more direct channel anyway to get what you really need, or at least to a specialty mail order source (who again, can't answer tough questions.) -- Dave Wood -- Product Manager, ObjectAda for Windows -- Aonix - "Ada with an Attitude" -- http://www.aonix.com