From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Ada -- a popular language?
Date: 1997/04/14
Date: 1997-04-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5isovg$gk2$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bc479c$dc234320$22f482c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com
Bill Keen writes:
"If they'd given away free Ada compilers with every Unix box sold things
might have developed on different lines. These days we can use GNAT for
free, but not for commercial work. Customers tend to demand a validation
certificate, and validated compilers still tend to cost a lot more than
the competition."
Wow, so many mistakes in so few words!
If customers "demand a validation certificate" why would they want to use
another language where the compilers are not validated? So this makes no
diff. to language choice.
...and then the really funny...
'we can't use GNAT for commercial work'
Chortle, chortle. Too many beers Bill? :-) (really either at best
total ignorance of the GNU license, at worst idealogically driven fibs).
...and then validated compilers (e.g. the free GNAT compiler) cost more
than the competition. If this is true, Bill, could you tell me who the
competition is? They obviously pay me to use their compiler! :-)
Dale
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[not found] <01bc45df$10fa6480$d27d8ea1@AaBbCcDd>
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Ada -- a popular language? Stanley Allen
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-11 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-04-11 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-04-11 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
1997-04-13 0:00 ` Bill Keen
[not found] ` <5ivrre$en0@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <5j4kfi$1g1@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-16 0:00 ` Byron
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1997-04-21 0:00 ` Dave Smith
1997-04-23 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Latin1 Peter Hermann
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Ada -- a popular language? Michael Feldman
[not found] ` <5ivta3$en0@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
[not found] ` <5j04g7$42s@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
[not found] ` <5j11vb$h86$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1997-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <JSA.97Apr16143427@alexandria>
[not found] ` <5j4kli$1g1@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <dewar.861244012@merv>
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Tom Wheeley
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Ingemar Ragnemalm
1997-04-16 0:00 Adrian B.Y. Hoe
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1997-04-16 0:00 Adrian B.Y. Hoe
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