From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Early availability of cheap Ada compilers (Was: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:33:31 +0100
Date: 2012-03-07T11:33:31+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d38ohf9g.fsf_-_@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jj3qcs$5m0$1@munin.nbi.dk
Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Subset versions of Janus/Ada were introduced in 1981, and on the IBM
> PC in 1982. There were other companies, too. All of these compilers
> were competitively priced for the time (several hundred dollars) --
> the dirt cheap compilers (in more ways than one) came later (including
> versions of Janus/Ada for $99; indeed, that compiler is *still* in our
> catelog at $129).
Why was it that I couldn't find it in 1993, when I was actually looking
for an Ada compiler?
I suppose I wasn't looking in the right place. But where was the right
place to look back then?
I think the compiler vendors (and the Ada community as a whole) are
doing a much better job of making potential customers aware of the
availability of Ada compilers now. But is there something that can be
improved? (Assuming the same marketing budget.)
Greetings,
Jacob
--
"Sleep is just a cheap substitute for coffee"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-07 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-17 17:22 Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?” Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 17:31 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 17:33 ` Fun with History: ³Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?² Bill Findlay
2012-02-23 13:29 ` Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?” Marco
2012-02-23 16:23 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-23 16:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-23 18:20 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-23 20:32 ` Phil Clayton
2012-02-24 1:14 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-02-24 21:32 ` Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented tmoran
2012-02-26 14:53 ` Marco
2012-02-26 18:02 ` J-P. Rosen
[not found] ` <u-adnbL5aqVVy9fSnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d@earthlink.com>
2012-02-26 18:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-26 21:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-27 17:37 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-27 20:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-26 18:33 ` tmoran
2012-02-26 16:22 ` Marco
2012-03-06 1:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-07 10:33 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2012-03-07 12:43 ` Early availability of cheap Ada compilers (Was: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented) Simon Clubley
2012-03-08 1:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 1:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 12:21 ` Simon Clubley
2012-03-09 2:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 9:00 ` anon
2012-03-08 15:32 ` Shark8
[not found] ` <5d2664b3-566a-40a5-910b-ef3460a5f363@do4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
2012-02-26 22:03 ` Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented J-P. Rosen
2012-02-27 1:29 ` tmoran
2012-02-26 22:06 ` Gautier write-only
2012-02-27 2:15 ` anon
2012-02-27 4:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-27 8:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-06 1:40 ` Randy Brukardt
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox