Re: Ada Compiler Pricing

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Most of the resources are there to make Ada quite useful to the student
environment and that is cause for hope. There really should be no
impediments to learning and using Ada as a student or hobbyist. (short of
possibly not finding a book translated into one's native tongue.) The trick
is also to make it viable in the commercial world so that those students and
hobbyists can actually find jobs once they've invested in learning it. Also,
it would be helpful if there was something going along with Ada that gave
reasons outside of the language itself as to why students and hobbyists
should bother to learn it. (Example: Someone might want to learn C because
they wanted to play around with Linux. Someone might bother to learn Java
because they wanted to learn how to make cool things that run from a web
page. What does Ada provide now that might have a similar attraction? What
*could* Ada provide that would be an attraction?)

And yes, I'd heartily agree that getting rid of the off-topic crud would
make C.L.A. a better attraction to Ada newbies. The occasional drift may be
fine, but when things go into political outbursts that others will find
offensive, it can only serve to discourage readership.

MDC
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Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
news:u7kdcrrd9.fsf@wanadoo.fr...
>
> Good, now we are in 2003, we have Internet, 2 zero cost compilers for
students,
> many books, lots of Internet resources (too much to be read in a short
period
> of time), a living news group (except for 70% OT messages ;) So all this
is
> fixed! Ada is going to rock this year!
>