Re: Inexpensive Developer Level Commercial ADA compile

["Ann S. Brandon" <abrandon@sover.net>]

This is response to Tom Moran's comment on Sunday: 

> I asked Google for "Ada Compilers"
> and got a bunch of stuff, but the first several entries were for very
> old web pages with antiquated information.  

I searched on Google twice on two different computers for Ada compilers
(not using any quotes) and got, as a first hit, the antiquated Ada Home
page, and on the second the newest AdaIC Compiler page.

http://www.adaic.org/compilers/

> Eventually I saw
> directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Ada/Compilers
> and www.acm.org/sigada et al, but someone who didn't already know the
> answers already would have waded through a lot of unhelpful stuff
> first. 

I will definitely contact the person in charge of this directory and set
her straight.

> Do a google search and see what I mean.

Same result both times. So I'm not sure how to repeat your results.

>  Do the other search
> engines turn up more helpful information? 

I'll check on this next week. Am not sure yet if we need to register the
pages officially or just depend on the search engines to do their jobs.

> What can be done to make it
> easy, instead of hard, for someone new to Ada to find a compiler?
>

I hope our new site will make this easy with its drop-down menus, which
allow surfers to go instantly anywhere in the site. In other words, if
someone lands on almost any page of our new site, they are be able to go
to the compilers list to compare compilers, or to the downloads list to
get a free temporary one and try out Ada.

By the way, I'm *always* interested in new search word suggestions from
anyone to help people find the new AdaIC web site.

Thanks,
Ann Brandon
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