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: 103376,9923b1c3be80099b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic) Date: 1996/10/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 190293907 references: <53mdal$6t8@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <544aj2$c6p@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <1996Oct17.074956.1@eisner> <545n4g$sg@news.syspac.com> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Larry says "> I had not realized there would be any other reason to buy it. > Are there capabilities other than Ada that would drive sales, > or that Tenon might be disposed to believe are driving sales > of that future product ?" What an extremely odd and Ada-centric view of things? Yes, it is nice that Tenon has been willing to put some resources into the Ada development effort using GNAT, but they see (and I would have thought most people would see the same way) MachTen as a generally useful product for anyone wanting a Unix interface that is compatible with System 7.