From: pierson@encore.com (Dan L. Pierson)
Subject: Re: Cheap/Free Ada (was: Ada9x Transition)
Date: 26 Mar 91 23:22:57 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <PIERSON.91Mar26182257@xenna.encore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jcallen@Encore.COM's message of 26 Mar 91 17:10:53 GMT
Regarding Cheap/Free Ada (was: Ada9x Transition); jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen) adds:
> I'd love to see AJPO drop a large parcel of unmarked bills on GNU's
> doorstep, ask for no project plan, no design reviews, no 2167A doc;
> just a working Ada compiler "sometime" that is freely available in
> source form.
Little though I like Ada, this would about the best single thing that
could happen to increase Ada usage in education and thus the number of
graduates familiar with the language.
I suspect that the worst thing about it from the viewpoint of the true
believers is that it implies that along with your Ada system you get
very comparable C++, Objective-C, Modula-3 and maybe an Eiffel-like
language (Sather). People would really be able to compare a suite of
languages with a similar and pretty good implementation base. It
seems unlikely that those who prefer that languages be selected by
government mandate would welcome this sort of comparison...
--
dan
In real life: Dan Pierson, Encore Computer Corporation, Research
UUCP: {talcott,linus,necis,decvax}!encore!pierson
Internet: pierson@encore.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1991-03-26 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1991-03-24 22:05 Ada9x Transition Plan (443 lines) ftp-ed from AJPO Michael Feldman
1991-03-26 2:39 ` Jim Showalter
1991-03-26 14:45 ` Michael Feldman
1991-03-26 17:10 ` Cheap/Free Ada (was: Ada9x Transition) Jerry Callen
1991-03-26 21:32 ` Michael Feldman
1991-03-26 23:22 ` Dan L. Pierson [this message]
1991-03-27 21:00 ` Jim Showalter
1991-03-27 18:58 ` Jim Showalter
1991-03-29 1:47 ` Jerry Callen
1991-03-26 17:38 ` Ada9x Transition Plan (443 lines) ftp-ed from AJPO Steve Vestal
1991-03-26 21:28 ` Michael Feldman
1991-03-27 20:58 ` Jim Showalter
1991-03-28 14:24 ` Dennis Doubleday
1991-03-29 3:31 ` Jim Showalter
1991-03-29 5:55 ` Michael Feldman
1991-03-29 21:29 ` Jim Showalter
1991-03-26 22:50 ` jncs
1991-03-27 3:15 ` Jim Showalter
1991-03-31 14:47 ` Ralph Reid III
1991-03-26 20:33 ` ACVC policy (was Re: Ada9x Transition Plan) madmats
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox