Re: Newbie wanna Ada

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3BD9A519.5040502@maciejsobczak.com>, Maciej Sobczak says...
>I'm convinced now that Ada is quite mature technology with lots of stuff 
>behind it, although there is no (S)uper (U)niversal (N)etwork of 
>resellers nor any (M)ajor (S)oftware company like (I)nnocent (B)ig 
>(M)anufacturer, that would shove big bucks into its development. They'd 
>rather play fool with their own, non-standard toys.

I think that's a very large part of it. Its not as easy to make custom
incompatable versions of an Ada compiler to lock users into your compiler/OS.
The two companies most famous for selling compilers, Borland and Microsoft,
pretty much built their businesses around that kind of behavior.

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