Re: How many Ada programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

["Marc A. Criley" <mcqada95@earthlink.net>]

John McCabe wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 02:16:41 GMT, Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
> wrote:
> 
> >Gavin Small wrote:
> >>
> >> Now all I need is a compiler? or interpreter? (pref. free)
> >
> >None. Ada is used by software engineers, not programmers.
> >
> >One free Ada compiler is GNAT, available from
> >
> >ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/
> >
> >The most recent free version is 3.14p. Other vendors supply free
> >evaluation/student versions of their compilers, also.
> 
> As you would know if you'd bothered to carry out a search on Google
> groups. See
> http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=free%20compiler&as_ugroup=comp.lang.ada&lr=lang_en&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=2000&as_maxd=11&as_maxm=2&as_maxy=2002&hl=en

Hey y'all!  Lighten up!  Being snitty is hardly the way to endear a new
Ada programmer to the language or this news group!  Sheesh!

Gavin, if you're running Linux, there are ready-to-go RPMs for GNAT and
associated development tools at www.gnuada.org.

Marc A. Criley
Consultant
Quadrus Corporation
www.quadruscorp.com