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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a60013da4806d5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-22 19:46:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Lao Xiao Hai Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for Windows CE Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:40:55 -0800 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3A95DBC7.8D6FEEA5@ix.netcom.com> References: <3A8DF1F4.7CC362A1@erols.com> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.35.b3.c9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 23 Feb 2001 03:43:10 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5453 Date: 2001-02-23T03:43:10+00:00 List-Id: "William J. Thomas" wrote: > I remember asking AONIX a few years ago when/if they were going to produce a > CE compatible compiler. AONIX in its great wisdom replied that they did not > see a market for CE. > > Mind you these were the same folks who back in the 80's did not see a market > for a Windows based compiler. One of my students recently returned from a large Windows CE conference. Thousands of attendees, to his surprise. He is excited about Windows CE for embedded systems. In answer to his question regarding Ada support, I had to admit there was none that I knew. Well, I suppose he will be able to use C# for this someday. It would be nice if there were an Ada compiler for Windows CE, but who would do the port? RR Software did an excellent thick binding to Windows 95/98/NT/... but I suspect they are not yet ready to buy a corporate Lexus with the profits from the product. If there are no customers for a product, why would anyone want to build it? If there is no product will there be any customers for it? Richard Riehle