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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,da628a7f8aa21693 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-09 03:35:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.teledanmark.no!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Seeking advice Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:35:46 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1044790546 1819 129.241.83.78 (9 Feb 2003 11:35:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:35:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33935 Date: 2003-02-09T11:35:46+00:00 List-Id: Tony wrote: > My apologies in advance if some of these questions have been answered > recently or are contained in a FAQ that I should have read before posting :) > > I would like to begin doing some commercial programming and ADA seems like a > very appealing language. However, I am concerned about a number of issues: Ada not ADA. Ada is a name not a Three Letter Abbreviation > 1. Development environments seem to be horrendously expensive. Are there > any reasonably priced (for me this means probably sub $1000) compilers/IDEs > available? GNAT > 2. Are there any licencing issues with using the gnat compiler for > commercial work? No > 3. Is interest in ADA increasing/remaining steady/decreasing? For example, > will ADA still have significant support in, say, five years? Hard to say anything about five years. Maybe C/C++ is ban by law by then for all I know, but I hope I still can fly airplanes with Ada inside. I have also noticed that people from the mobile/telecommunication companies; Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens (IIRC) seem to be doing Ada. I don't know about the commercial sector, but these points I find important for growth of Ada among young people: [] Gnat is getting included in gcc [] GPS (Gnat's IDE) will hopefully be released to the public [] Kdeveloper getting Ada support [] GtkAda [] Gnade and APQ [] SDL bindings [] AdaXML [] And a standard library for dealing with list etc... > 4. Are there any graphics libraries which are supported on multiple > platforms (preferably Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris)? GtkAda and SDL are your best bets. -- Preben Randhol ---------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov