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

[john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe)]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:42:38 GMT, "Marc A. Criley"
<mcqada95@earthlink.net> wrote:

>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!

So just how many times have you answered this question? Wouldn't you
prefer it if (given that you've answered it so many times in the past)
you didn't have to answer it again?

If the OP didn't know about Google Groups, then they do now so at
least I've been informative. If they did know about Google Groups then
they should have checked for what is most definitely a FAQ!