From: Byron <Byron.B.Kauffman@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Ada -- a popular language?
Date: 1997/04/16
Date: 1997-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3354C73E.54B@lmtas.lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5ivrre$en0@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com
Dave Smith wrote:
>
> Bill Keen <billy@marnhull.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> >The slow takeoff of Ada also has to do with the cost of compilers. In
>
> True!
> >
> >If they'd given away free Ada compilers with every Unix box sold things
> >might have developed on different lines.
>
> Just think what would have happened if IBM had bundled Ada with the
> early PCs rather than microsoft Basic!
>
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The 2Gb hard drive would have been invented a lot sooner? :-)
Seriously, I'd really like to see Aonix's stuff in a retail shop. Under
100$
sounds real cheap to me, or even $75 or so for Dr. Feldman's book that
includes ActivAda.
--
Byron
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[not found] <01bc45df$10fa6480$d27d8ea1@AaBbCcDd>
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Ada -- a popular language? Robert Dewar
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Stanley Allen
1997-04-11 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-04-11 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-04-13 0:00 ` Bill Keen
[not found] ` <5ivrre$en0@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <5j4kfi$1g1@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-16 0:00 ` Byron [this message]
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1997-04-21 0:00 ` Dave Smith
1997-04-23 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Latin1 Peter Hermann
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Ada -- a popular language? Michael Feldman
[not found] ` <5ivta3$en0@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
[not found] ` <5j04g7$42s@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
[not found] ` <5j11vb$h86$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1997-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <JSA.97Apr16143427@alexandria>
[not found] ` <5j4kli$1g1@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <dewar.861244012@merv>
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Tom Wheeley
1997-04-11 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Ingemar Ragnemalm
1997-04-16 0:00 Adrian B.Y. Hoe
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1997-04-16 0:00 Adrian B.Y. Hoe
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