From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 4 Jun 93 04:12:39 GMT From: world!srctran@decwrl.dec.com (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: The Battle of the Cultures Message-ID: List-Id: >If a near-equivalent library were included with the Ada compiler, >I wouldn't ever have considered the Think Pascal/C family. >For my personal use, it isn't "culture" but tool availability and >maturity which determines my choice of language. > >Whether this has anything to do with Mandates or not, I couldn't say. :-) > >Terry J. Westley, Principal Computer Scientist >Calspan Corporation, P.O. Box 400, Buffalo, NY 14225 I'll say it since I am tiresome bore. The Ada Mandate shelters the Ada vendors from competition, diminishing the market and driving up compiler prices, driving down users. With such a small potential market, it is uneconomical for anyone to produce Ada bindings for all of the software technology that you can access through C. It's also uneconomical to produce pure Ada libraries - the market is so small you will never recoup your investment, especially selling to defense contractors who hate buying software technology. If only the comrades setting Ada policy paid attention to these important free market principles, Ada might be able to be revived from its coma. Greg Aharonian " . ... .. . . .... " -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178