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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6e045a5e739e2c80 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.129.169 with SMTP id nx9mr3768115pbb.2.1331170739722; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:38:59 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: h9ni55pbe.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!gegeweb.org!news.ecp.fr!news.jacob-sparre.dk!munin.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Early availability of cheap Ada compilers (Was: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:38:54 -0600 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <15362655.665.1330003793505.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbbox6><13615928.2120.1330273323697.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjd19> <87d38ohf9g.fsf_-_@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1331170738 16333 69.95.181.76 (8 Mar 2012 01:38:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 01:38:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Date: 2012-03-07T19:38:54-06:00 List-Id: "Jacob Sparre Andersen" wrote in message news:87d38ohf9g.fsf_-_@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk... > Randy Brukardt wrote: > >> Subset versions of Janus/Ada were introduced in 1981, and on the IBM >> PC in 1982. There were other companies, too. All of these compilers >> were competitively priced for the time (several hundred dollars) -- >> the dirt cheap compilers (in more ways than one) came later (including >> versions of Janus/Ada for $99; indeed, that compiler is *still* in our >> catelog at $129). > > Why was it that I couldn't find it in 1993, when I was actually looking > for an Ada compiler? > > I suppose I wasn't looking in the right place. But where was the right > place to look back then? I don't know. I can't remember how we ever could have found anything prior to AltaVista. (I'm not going to give Google credit for something that they didn't invent...:-). Advertising was hit-or-miss. (And our budget was $0 by 1993.) Lists of validated compilers and the like helped, but you had to know about the AdaIC in order to get that information. Trade shows like SIGAda were a good place to find out things, but you had to know about them. And so on... Randy.