Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if...

[john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe)]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:46:38 +0300, "Juha Valimaki"
<juha.valimaki@xdsloy.com> wrote:

>The question is: Would you or your company use Ada more if there was Visual
>C++/Metroworks/.. like tools available at reasonable cost?

Possibly.

But from what I remember, when Aonix started selling various editions
of ObjectAda to compete with Visual C++, they didn't get anywhere with
it. I wonder whether people have got into the position of thinking
that, if Ada tools can be acquired at a reasonable cost, aren't they
going to be shit?

Are you aware that ACT are starting to push their GPS product? This
sounds like exactly what is needed (and like what you are suggesting).
I would have loved to have the opportunity to pay, for example,
$150.00 for something like that with tools that would compete with the
standard edition of Visual C++, but I can't see ACT doing that (they
have certainly not shown any interest in the past in that market in my
experience).

However "reasonable price" is all relative. Visual Studio .NET
Professional Edition is around $1000.00, but that includes VB.NET,
VC++.NET, VC#.NET and VJ#.NET so you would probably have to try to
compete with that.

The Standard Edition of VC++.NET is only around $110.00, so could
something like that be produced? I doubt it would be viable for any of
the Ada vendors to do this.