Re: Assembly language (was: Re: Another 1.3 wish.)

[dragon@trwspf.TRW.COM (Roger Vossler)]

In article <2176@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
*The cheapest validated personal computer Ada compiler still
*porks in above $1000, last I heard.  (I've given up waiting, and
*ordered a Modula 2 compiler for personal use, $200 list.)  So, code
*written in Ada might as well be pseudocode, for all most of us care
*for our own use.

Although we are a large defense contractor and are using Ada, members of
my group have used Modula-2 very successfully on a number of efforts
internally. Modula-2 makes a very nice, small, cheap, fast, and powerful
subset of Ada, particularly, when we have to pay for it out of our own
pockets. 8-) Taxpayers may not be too concerned about how their money is
spent, but stockholders are less charitable.
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