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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4871bb700d475964 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-11 16:13:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada for Hobbyists on VMS (was: an interested business-oriented...) Message-ID: References: <3B1FDE49.17AAF924@PublicPropertySoftware.com> <8766e76sws.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B20D103.E633F7C5@easystreet.com> <87ofrzj6y2.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <9ftnpg$8ae$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <0049Rfy3etgD@eisner.encompasserve.org> <9g3ifb$2n9$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> Organization: LJK Software Date: 11 Jun 2001 19:13:32 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 992301238 216.44.122.34 (Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:13:58 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:13:58 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8587 Date: 2001-06-11T19:13:32-05:00 List-Id: In article <9g3ifb$2n9$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>, Georg Bauhaus writes: > Larry Kilgallen wrote: > P.S.: Hm. Decus, isn't that VMS related? I wonder if this is > one more OS, with supporting Ada compilers, from which one can > learn a lot? (The hobbyist license beeing affordable, the hardware > probably not...) There are regularly hobbyist-suitable VMS-capable machines on eBay. The DECUS hobbyist license gets you the DEC Ada83 compilers for both VAX and Alpha. GNAT runs on Alpha VMS if you require Ada95, but even the Alpha machines are sold on eBay. Those used machines are not as fast as the latest ones being built, but my own experience with Ada compilers is that if the compiler gives me more time to think, the result turns out better :-)