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From: gasser@masg1.epfl.ch (Laurent Gasser)
Subject: Re: Ada saved by gnat (was Re: Where's Aetech?)
Date: 1995/04/07
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Date: 1995-04-07T00:00:00+00:00
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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.