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: 103376,1b551e3318e4c1a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-26 13:43:30 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!xfer13.netnews.com!netnews.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newspump.sol.net!news.execpc.com!newspeer.sol.net!homer.alpha.net!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <94jki1$eha$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A70172C.B1D91123@earthlink.net> <3A719DA7.82E2610E@adapower.net> Subject: Re: Why isn't there Visual Ada? - historical note X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 Message-ID: <3cmc6.347$7e6.96100@homer.alpha.net> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:41:02 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.46.62.124 X-Complaints-To: abuse@alpha.net X-Trace: homer.alpha.net 980545407 156.46.62.124 (Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:43:27 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:43:27 CST Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4580 Date: 2001-01-26T15:41:02-06:00 List-Id: Britt Snodgrass wrote in message <3A719DA7.82E2610E@adapower.net>... >Perhaps what Pascal was remembering is the "Visual Ada" product >trademarked and sold by Aetech in the 1993-1994 time frame. This Visual >Ada was an option for Aetech's IntegrAda for Windows product. It was a >GUI builder very similar in appearance to the one in Microsoft's Visual >Basic 1.0. I bought 20 copies to use for an Ada class at Holloman AFB, >NM in 1994. > >Apparently Aetech has been out of business for some time. They used to >have a Web site at www.pcada.com but it is no longer active. Yes, Aetech has been gone for quite a while. After their demise, one of their former employees ended up with the software. We (RR Software) licensed the programming environment from him, and renamed it JAWS II. It's still found in Janus/Ada, although it is unmaintainable (because we didn't get the source code, and apparently no one has it anymore). We're working on replacing it with a Claw program. Randy.