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,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-09 02:29:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!nycmny1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: johnnospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:30:18 GMT Message-ID: <3df46fae.5122225@news.demon.co.uk> References: <3DF1615C.7AAAC86E@adaworks.com> <3DF1B042.6603DDDE@easystreet.com> <3DF2A483.EC512CDF@adaworks.com> <8db3d6c8.0212080918.4e0a732@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1039429779 15430 158.152.226.81 (9 Dec 2002 10:29:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:29:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31574 Date: 2002-12-09T10:30:18+00:00 List-Id: On 8 Dec 2002 09:18:02 -0800, nma124@hotmail.com (steve_H) wrote: >I have not used rational Ada products. But from the point of view of making >Ada more popular with the masses, I doubt it will make any difference if >Rational Ada compiler existed or not. Why do you think rational Ada >is important for Ada? Rational Ada is important for Ada because, if Rational didn't do an Ada compiler, do you think they would bother with Ada support for UML? I doubt it personally. I believe if Rational Ada is dumped, then so will Rational Rose's Ada support. How many other UML tools can say they have the sort of Ada support that Rose has? Rational Rose is by far the most visible UML tool available - if there is no Ada support in the tool, then those who can't be bothered doing their homework (and there are a lot of them around) will see that there is no visible UML based design tool with Ada support, so will assume that they cannot carry out their project in Ada and use some other language instead.