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,da628a7f8aa21693 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-09 05:21:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc04.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey Creem" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Seeking advice X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.31.5.146 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc04 1044795761 66.31.5.146 (Sun, 09 Feb 2003 13:02:41 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 13:02:41 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 13:02:41 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33938 Date: 2003-02-09T13:02:41+00:00 List-Id: "Tony" wrote in message news:ANl1a.5470$Xo.18510@news-server.bigpond.net.au... > 1. Development environments seem to be horrendously expensive. Are there > any reasonably priced (for me this means probably sub $1000) compilers/IDEs > available? Compiler including GUI builder from rrsoftware $295 Object Ada for WIndows from Aonix < $1000 GNAT $Free AdaGIde for Windows (http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/adagide.html) Free Never have had to debug a single array bounds error in >10 years of professional programming... Priceless > 2. Are there any licencing issues with using the gnat compiler for > commercial work? No > 3. Is interest in ADA increasing/remaining steady/decreasing? For example, > will ADA still have significant support in, say, five years? Support in 5 years..Yes.. Increasing/Decressing.. Unclear..Within 5 years Sun will be gone. Java will be a memory. Everyone will be using .Net and C# (or A# :).... Ok..I have no way of knowing this but I think there is a better chance that there will be significant Ada support available in 5 years than there is that Sun will be around and strong. > 4. Are there any graphics libraries which are supported on multiple > platforms (preferably Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris)? GtkAda...But if you really mean supported then we start talking some more cash with some expensive support contracts.