Re: Free/Cheap Ada compilers

[g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University)]

In article <15585@june.cs.washington.edu>, pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis) writes:
> The following is an excerpt from a comp.lang.misc post by Barry Shein (in
> which he analyzes C, FORTRAN, Pascal, Ada, Scheme, and C++ for use in
> teaching).  Whether this post is accurate or not, I think it clearly states
> common perceptions about Ada.
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> 4. ADA - Few compilers, mostly too expensive for academics to ever
> own, few books oriented towards CS, very demanding on the computing
> resources (usually precipitating battles between the people who teach
> and those who run the computers as the intro class makes the system
> unusable), oh well.
> 
> DOD et al blew it with ADA by not making ADA environments available
> (thru grants etc) to educators. Right now it's mostly non-existent in
> academia, and the few faculty I know who insisted on teaching with ADA
> had to be heroes with raising money to support their courses.
> 
> So its suitability as a teaching language is mostly moot, you don't
> own it, and you can't afford it.
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> Rich
This is sad - and apparently written from the viewpoint of total ignorance. 
Rich, if did not post a follup, I will.  Maybe I will anyway.  
 
And since when did the American Dental Association have a compiler?

I will not post my fustration on here....

George

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