Re: The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE?

["Aristophon" <Aristophon@excite.com>]

I'm a middle-aged "hobbyist" ... have been following c.l.a. for the last ten
years ...:) Just finished spending about $260 dollars on various
textbooks -- mostly on Prolog, requirements analysis and UML -- but also 2
textbooks on Ada 95 ("The Lovelace Tutorial," by Wheeler and  "Ada As a
Second Language," by Cohen).

Would have been nice if any of these textbooks had included GNAT 3.14 on a
CD Rom! As it is I searched for, downloaded and installed GNAT 3.13p as well
as Ada GIDE.

If I hadn't been motivated to do so, there'd have been little reference to
how to obtain this compiler on the multitude of programming sites a
hobbyist, such as myself, visits.

It's odd there's only one site on the planet (New York University) from
which one can download GNAT 3.13p! Would like to know why there aren't
mirror sites in the U.S.? Yesterday I visited several GNU sites -- saw
references to GNAT -- but no copy of GNAT binaries or source in any of the
GNU ftp mirror sites I checked. I've felt I had to spend a lot more time to
get GNAT than the effort needed to get compilers for other languages.

Here's some information about what *my* price points are: Microsoft hooked
me almost a decade ago with the original 99 dollar versions of Visual C++
and MS Access. Ninety nine dollars is a good price point for a CD-ROM and a
paperback text -- though I'm "hoighty-toighty" and generally buy hardcover
textbooks ...:) The most mammoth purchase of a compiler I ever made was 189
dollars for the initial release of Borland's Delphi.

Yeah ... I'm cheap ... but cut me some slack -- I'm unemployed ...:)  Still
you've got to admire the way I spent that unemployment check ...:)



Marin David Condic <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in
message news:9p2ca0$iq5$1@nh.pace.co.uk...
> I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to draw. A book that came with
a
> disk that included Gnat & AdaGIDE and gdb would *be* a compiler kit.