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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f78d2f93ab55fd75 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Chris Miller" Subject: Re: Ada development environments Date: 2000/09/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 669510550 Distribution: world References: <39BD1FB6.1684694D@trw.com> <39BD3696.797AFE23@west.raytheon.com> <8plrqi$2iv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 X-Trace: ozemail.com.au 968911334 63.34.197.102 (Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:02:14 EST) Organization: OzEmail Ltd, Australia X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:02:14 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-09-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > I agree that Apex on a Unix host is a *VERY* capable development > environment. I like it very much. So do I. Rational though seem to have a problem in that there is no low cost entry point for their product. Hence more and more new developments are being done with Gnat. This becomes self reinforcing. Seems like a repeat of the DOS (cheap) vs VMS (technically brilliant) situation a decade or so ago. Dos won. Chris Miller