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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:32:43 +0000 (UTC)
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>  The obvious repercussion of this is that there weren't any cheap
>  compilers (say, in the US$50 - US$100 range) that you could run on
>  your PC at home, so no one could experiment with the language.  Ada
>  essentially missed the boat in the PC revolution, and so was never

  The obvious lesson here is that advertising is supreme.  There was
in fact a $100 Ada that ran on DOS machines - I know because I bought
it to try out this new language named Ada.  I think the ad I saw was in
Byte magazine, but it surely wasn't as much press as Lotus or Ovation(?)
the never-did-exist system described in a cover article.