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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c62a5e526aafd9d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-28 12:09:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!typhoon.cei.net!not-for-mail From: "Aristophon" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9onvig$f6n$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3bb05ee7.10496763@news.demon.co.uk> <3BB0B3C4.432E2B4B@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <3bb1d07f.18201562@news.demon.co.uk> <3BB2075A.57C22F55@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <3BB22F0E.718B1244@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9otbs2$juj$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ovaf2$c18$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BB340C6.DC51CB98@lmtas.lmco.com> <9ovh43$erd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9p2ca0$iq5$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:28:17 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.180.105.74 X-Complaints-To: noc@cei.net X-Trace: typhoon.cei.net 1001704149 204.180.105.74 (Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:09:09 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:09:09 CDT Organization: Arkansas' Best ISP =World Lynx, LLC= http://www.cei.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13489 Date: 2001-09-28T15:28:17-05:00 List-Id: I'm a middle-aged "hobbyist" ... have been following c.l.a. for the last ten years ...:) Just finished spending about $260 dollars on various textbooks -- mostly on Prolog, requirements analysis and UML -- but also 2 textbooks on Ada 95 ("The Lovelace Tutorial," by Wheeler and "Ada As a Second Language," by Cohen). Would have been nice if any of these textbooks had included GNAT 3.14 on a CD Rom! As it is I searched for, downloaded and installed GNAT 3.13p as well as Ada GIDE. If I hadn't been motivated to do so, there'd have been little reference to how to obtain this compiler on the multitude of programming sites a hobbyist, such as myself, visits. It's odd there's only one site on the planet (New York University) from which one can download GNAT 3.13p! Would like to know why there aren't mirror sites in the U.S.? Yesterday I visited several GNU sites -- saw references to GNAT -- but no copy of GNAT binaries or source in any of the GNU ftp mirror sites I checked. I've felt I had to spend a lot more time to get GNAT than the effort needed to get compilers for other languages. Here's some information about what *my* price points are: Microsoft hooked me almost a decade ago with the original 99 dollar versions of Visual C++ and MS Access. Ninety nine dollars is a good price point for a CD-ROM and a paperback text -- though I'm "hoighty-toighty" and generally buy hardcover textbooks ...:) The most mammoth purchase of a compiler I ever made was 189 dollars for the initial release of Borland's Delphi. Yeah ... I'm cheap ... but cut me some slack -- I'm unemployed ...:) Still you've got to admire the way I spent that unemployment check ...:) Marin David Condic wrote in message news:9p2ca0$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.