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From: Byron <Byron.B.Kauffman@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Ada -- a popular language?
Date: 1997/04/16
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Date: 1997-04-16T00:00:00+00:00
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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