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: 103376,6e16e39504a85f4e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-23 20:33:59 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!uni-duisburg.de!zib-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!source.asset.com!source.asset.com!not-for-mail From: tannend@source.asset.com (David M. Tannen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Borland Ada Date: 23 Feb 1995 12:53:21 -0500 Organization: Crusader Software (tm) Sender: tannend@source.asset.com Message-ID: <3iii2h$rmq@source.asset.com> References: <60.18011.4393.0N1D0B41@canrem.com> <3iibtm$hlf@source.asset.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 530tr0 Date: 1995-02-23T12:53:21-05:00 List-Id: In article <3iibtm$hlf@source.asset.com>, Michael M. Bishop wrote: >In article <60.18011.4393.0N1D0B41@canrem.com>, >Steve Shadoff wrote: >>I was hoping that someone here cound tell me the following. >>1) Is there a Borland Ada compiler >>2) If not, will there be one soon? >>3) What price would it be? >>4) Does it use the OWL meta-windowing objects? >There is no Borland Ada compiler at this time and I'm not convinced >that such a thing will exist any time in the near future. I doubt that >Borland sees any major return on investment for an Ada compiler project >and at this point, I couldn't argue with them. Actually there is no reason to ever think that Borland will build an Ada compiler. There current "hot-ticket" is called Delphi which builds upon their Borland Pascal v7.0 technology. In fact if you look at the language features they have added it is a very nice language for doing Win3.1 etal development on. Just don't count on portability to other OSes or pascals. Besides that the price is right, <$250 gets the desktop version on CD and their component library (VCL) on source. (For more info see comp.lang.pascal). Although I will use GNAT for any OS/2 development I might do in the future, I will be using Delphi for my MS-Windows development until an Ada vendor can match the Delphi toolset and at their price. Hopefully the Ada/Windows vendors get the point that there are folks who will use their tools if they priced them at a reasonable amount. I do a lot of short term consulting and many of my clients want portable and maintainable solutions; but they are not willing to pay thousands of dollars for tools (and neither am I). One client is willing to live within the Windows world and has a lot of BP code so Delphi fits the bill. But they would like to also goto OS/2 one day, and right now the only reasonable solution I can make is C++ (blech). So Mr. Vendor if you have a solution for Windows and OS/2 that provides a visual environment (see Delphi) and a database engine (see Delphi) or a really good set of libraries for a database engine (see TurboPower's B-Tree Filer) for ~$500 per seat send me a note. -- David Tannen (tannend@source.asset.com) TeamAda Member Christian Acronyms: B.I.B.L.E.=Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth G.R.A.C.E.=God's Redemption At Christ's Expense F.A.I.T.H.=Forsaking all, I trust Him