From: koehnema@ENUXHA.EAS.ASU.EDU (Harry Koehnemann)
Subject: Re: Free Optimizing Ada Compiler
Date: 9 May 91 16:25:48 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9105091625.AA11977@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1991May9.080740.6534@netcom.COM
In article <1991May9.080740.6534@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
>
>If Ada is to succeed in the commercial sector, we HAVE to get a free,
>high-quality Ada compiler on every UNIX box in every college/university
>in the world: this is basically why C is such a success, and it seems
>we could learn by example. I've had e-mail discussions with several
>professors who would happily use Ada to teach software engineering principles
>if they could just get their hands on it.
It's not just that, it's also resources. It been discussed here to put
Ada as the beginning language, but what are the consequences of doing
so. A university can get a site license for pretty cheap. However,
compile 15 C programs concurrently and then 15 Ada versions for
equivalent programs and you'll see the magnitude of the problem.
Harry Koehnemann
koehnema@enuxha.eas.asu.edu
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1991-05-08 15:51 Free Optimizing Ada Compiler Gregory Aharonian
1991-05-09 8:07 ` Jim Showalter
1991-05-09 16:25 ` Harry Koehnemann [this message]
1991-05-09 17:43 ` Gary Wayne "Batman" Smith
1991-05-09 17:52 ` Ada compilers, resources, books in education? Bruce Weide
1991-05-09 17:55 ` Free Optimizing Ada Compiler Richard Pattis
1991-05-10 0:46 ` rharwood
1991-05-09 17:26 ` & Wise
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1991-05-09 21:36 hlavaty
1991-05-10 6:09 ` Jim Showalter
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