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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-11 14:08:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!chnws02.mediaone.net!chnws06.ne.mediaone.net!24.128.8.202!typhoon.ne.mediaone.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B4CBEAD.1A170570@mediaone.net> From: Ed Falis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Death by analogy Part 2 (was Re: is ada dead?) References: <3B4B3432.5BAFE9E1@easystreet.com> <3B4B4BF9.12C1E8C@lmco.com> <3B4B613B.25659225@mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:00:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.96.132.248 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: typhoon.ne.mediaone.net 994885256 65.96.132.248 (Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:00:56 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:00:56 EDT Organization: Road Runner Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9836 Date: 2001-07-11T21:00:56+00:00 List-Id: DuckE wrote: > As an ObjectAda user it is my opinion that the lack of success of Aonix' > windows product likely has little to do with wanting the support of 5-digit > development systems. I'll continue to disagree about that one. > > > Unless support means providing a usable debugger with the system. Until > version 7.1.2 the debugger was a bad joke. Still with 7.2 the debugger has > some problems (though few). I also concede that there were problems in that area. > Unfortunately, about the same time what I > believe is the first viable version of the product was delivered (OA 7.2) > Aonix apparently decided that it was not a product worth the significant > continued investment to to improve. > Yes, I was part of the dead weight the company relieved itself of ;-) - Ed