From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 15 Jan 92 17:06:21 GMT From: van-bc!ubc-cs!newsserver.sfu.ca!fraser.sfu.ca!naran@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Travers Naran) Subject: Re: ADA compiler for the Amiga? Message-ID: List-Id: mfeldman@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: >In article naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran) writes: >>skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes: >> >>"cheap"? Oh yes, we all can go right out and buy $1200 compilers. :-) Not eve n >>IBM users can afford that. Those compilers are ususally sold to corporations >>and organizations that use them. And the Amiga is supposedly on a no-bid stat us >>with SDI researchers so I'm sure there is a definite market for ADA compilers . >Whoa! A little perspective here. I think your info is outdated. True, there >are no Amiga compilers, but academic pricing for PC compilers is ~$100. >See Rich Pattis' recent post giving a survey of academic prices. Sorry, but I missed it. But that is _VERY_ good news to hear! :-) The reason being that Amiga software prices tend to be a lot cheaper than the I BM prices so I might be able to afford an Ada compiler. I got a hold of the origin al 'tutorial' manual that was a prelude to the standards document (A thick sucker) . The mere specifications of the language and the constructs got me extremely excited . Inherited generic objects! Operator/Function overloading! The list goes on!! :- ) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Travers Naran | "I am NOT a merry Mail address: naran@fraser.sfu.ca or naran@sfu.ca | man!" Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada | Lt. Worf, Cmpt. Science student wanna-be | ST:TNG, "Q-pid" Trekker, Leaper, Red Dwarf'er, Prober, etc. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------