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 10.68.201.129 with SMTP id ka1mr986712pbc.6.1331259669762; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:21:09 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: h9ni4567pbe.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!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: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:20:55 -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 1331259663 17348 69.95.181.76 (9 Mar 2012 02:21:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 02:21:03 +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: 2012-03-08T20:20:55-06:00 List-Id: "Simon Clubley" wrote in message news:jja87m$kna$1@dont-email.me... > On 2012-03-07, Randy Brukardt wrote: ... >> 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... > > Explaining this advertising world to someone under 20 is like explaining > what life was like, say, before television to those of us who have never > known a world without multiple television options. A non-Internet world > is totally foreign to them. No kidding. Even I don't really remember how I found things pre-Internet. And the truth is, often you didn't find out about things. I'm sure I built plenty of software that I could have gotten from somewhere else (of course, me writing it meant it was in Ada, so it at least seemed more reliable). Pre-Internet, Pre-cell phone was a very different world. (Kids used to wait by the phone for their friends to call them...and monopolize the single family phone for hours. Now they just monopolize the computer...) Randy.