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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Documenting Code (was:Programming language vote - results)
Date: 1997/11/01
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Randy said of Ada implementations

<<Perhaps because most serious implementations have a large price tag
attached, and are not subject to marketing/price wars like those that
have boosted the fortunes of BASIC, Pascal, C and C++.  If Microsoft
had actually succeeded with an APL implementation, this would
probably have led to a much more interesting present.>>

While this may have been true at one point, at this stage it is serious
disinformation :-)

There is a freely available implementation of Ada 95 that is widely used
by major commercial customers. It is GNAT, the GNU Ada 95 compiler, part
of the GCC system. GNAT is fully validated on a wide range of systems,
and is in fact the *only* Ada 95 technology that implements the full
Ada 95 language and passes 100% of the ACVC tests).

GNAT is available freely on many mirror sites on the net (check out
www.gnat.com for a list of sites). 

You might think that this kind of free availability would eliminate
price competition, but nothing could be further from the truth! Aonix
has an Ada 95 compiler for Windows NT/Win 95 and competes energetically
with GNAT. Limited capability versions of the Aonix Object-Ada compiler
are available for free downloading, and fully capable versions are sold
at very low prices, fully comparable with the price scale established by
MS and Borland for Pascal and C.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies (which provides commercial support for GNAT)

I realize this is cross-posted rather widely, but when disinformation is
spread widely, it seems appropriate to follow it up to all
corresponding groups.