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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-09 06:22:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died) Date: 9 May 2003 06:22:57 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <9fa75d42.0305090522.29c56a04@posting.google.com> References: <9fa75d42.0305080606.70eebec@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 32.97.239.17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1052486577 16243 127.0.0.1 (9 May 2003 13:22:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 May 2003 13:22:57 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63389 comp.object:63085 comp.lang.ada:37101 misc.misc:14037 Date: 2003-05-09T13:22:57+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:... > >> were at least three Ada compilers, but the quality > >> of these may have been questionable, and the > >> price was definitely high by PC standards. > IIRC, I purchased both BDS-C and later Janus Ada for $100. > The former ran on CP/M and the latter on MSDOS, both on 286s. > The latter was, of course, much more powerful and infinitely > better for debugging. Oh, right! The Ada compilers ranged as high as $1500s iirc, but Janus had a low cost one. But if the quality was so good, and the cost was so low (right in line with Turbo Pasca, Quick C etc), the incentives so high (defense contracts) it just proves that the language was found un-usable by programmers.