From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6e045a5e739e2c80 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.189.197 with SMTP id gk5mr1851936pbc.1.1331116417861; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:33:37 -0800 (PST) Path: h9ni49315pbe.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!volia.net!news2.volia.net!feed-A.news.volia.net!newsfeed.utanet.at!newsfeed.tele2net.at!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!munin.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada 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 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: <87d38ohf9g.fsf_-_@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> References: <15362655.665.1330003793505.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbbox6> <13615928.2120.1330273323697.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjd19> NNTP-Posting-Host: 95.209.238.149.bredband.3.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1331116413 31124 95.209.238.149 (7 Mar 2012 10:33:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:33:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RAnG27GwynEdE64XcfpUC8hmRB0= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 2012-03-07T11:33:31+01:00 List-Id: 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"