From: cs.utexas.edu!convex!spray@uunet.uu.net (Rob Spray)
Subject: Re: Open Systems closed to Ada?
Date: 10 Dec 92 18:03:18 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <spray.724010598@convex.convex.com> (raw)
In <1992Dec9.205207.4722@ennews.eas.asu.edu> koehnema@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Harry
Koehnemann) writes:
>The context of the question was "What did C have going for it in the
>past that makes it popular today". The first I became aware of "cheap"
>Ada compilers was ~1989 with Meridians $150 compiler for the PC (site
>licenses too). However, 1989 isn't soon enough to see Ada intergrated
>into CS programs (although that is now starting to happen) or to produce
>the same volume of Ada programmers we currently see available for C.
>If cheap compilers came out earlier, then maybe I'm wrong.
They were there, you just had to hustle! In 1985, I got a deep
discount on a Verdix compiler for Southern Methodist University's
VAX running 4.2bsd. It wasn't advertised, but a few phone calls
made it happen. It was good too. My graduate students were using
the debugger to debug tasking programs based solely on info they
gleened from the man pages (I had the only set of manuals, so they
wouldn't go for a walk.)
--Rob spray@convex.com
--former Visiting Industrial Professor, SMU
Disclaimer: my present employer uses Verdix technology, but I had
no relation with Verdix other than as a happy academic customer in 1985.
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