From: gasser@masg1.epfl.ch (Laurent Gasser)
Subject: Re: Ada saved by gnat (was Re: Where's Aetech?)
Date: 1995/04/07
Date: 1995-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3m42e8$l2k@info.epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: D6o3tw.4Hv@inmet.camb.inmet.com
This is the first time I learn about this promotion. I regularly
read this group though.
What kind of promotion is it if comp.lang.ada is not recalling some
nice informations like these from time to time. I always got the
feeling that C++ products vendors were almost intrusive (*) whereas
I had a hard time to learn about the adresses of companies selling Ada
products.
I don't even speak about some polite and respectful incentives to look
at the language Ada on other news groups...
(*) For the side story, I live in the French speaking part of
Switzerland. I registered at Symantech for their Think Pascal
compiler on Macintosh. I never heard of them for more than two years
when suddenly, I received an advertisement mail about C++ for Windows,
in German.
I don't speak German very well,
I hate Windows,
I don't like C++ very much.
Now, I am a MetroWerks' customer...
And also bought one copy of Meridian Ada 4.1.4 on Mac! (Thanks Mike
Feldman)
In article <D6o3tw.4Hv@inmet.camb.inmet.com>, stt@spock.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) writes:
|> GNAT was just one part of the Ada 9X Project Office's efforts
|> to promote Ada 95. There are also advertisements in appropriate
|> magazines, a free 1-800 number, promotional videos, catalogs of
|> Ada resources, a multimedia training CD-ROM, user/implementor contracts,
|> etc. However, GNAT is still the critical component to all of these
|> efforts, because there is no point in getting people excited about
|> something without providing them some way to try it out.
|>
|> -Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com
|> Intermetrics, Inc.
--
Laurent Gasser (gasser@dma.epfl.ch)
Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-04-05 0:00 Ada saved by gnat (was Re: Where's Aetech?) tmoran
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Laurent Gasser [this message]
[not found] ` <SRCTRAN.95Apr8101259@world.std.com>
[not found] ` <3mjccv$gts@news.znet.com>
1995-04-19 0:00 ` David Weller
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
[not found] ` <3mjcci$gcg@news.znet.com>
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Rajat Datta
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Rajat Datta
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Ada saved by gnat (was Re: Where's Aet Brian Hanson
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Ada saved by gnat (was Re: Where's Aetech?) Dale Pontius
1995-04-21 0:00 ` cjames
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1995-04-21 0:00 CONDIC
1995-04-22 0:00 ` David Weller
1995-04-03 0:00 tmoran
1995-04-03 0:00 ` Sean McNeil
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