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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: Jon S Anthony Subject: Re: Documenting Code (was:Programming language vote - results) Date: 1997/11/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286840664 Distribution: world References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <343FD05C.8986A557@flash.net> <34428914.2D71D0F@ibm.net> <01bcd87f$7fefcf00$25a43a91@basil.omroep.nl> <34458CE3.507C@dynamite.com.au> <3444BFC6.794BDF32@druid.net> <34466EB4.3381@dynamite.com.au> <6275dt$agm$3@news.on> <344BCED0.2D51@dynamite.com.au> <62idmb$htg$1@news.on> <344DEAA9.5115@hal-pc.org> <01bce1bf$5c2baaa0$95b66bcf@dkelly.ark.com> <345776DD.424B@hal-pc.org> <3459A84A.246@dynamite.com.au> <63fvii$su8$1@news.on> Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > Randy said of Ada implementations > > < attached, and are not subject to marketing/price wars like those that > have boosted the fortunes of BASIC, Pascal, C and C++. If Microsoft > had actually succeeded with an APL implementation, this would > probably have led to a much more interesting present.>> > > While this may have been true at one point, at this stage it is serious > disinformation :-) > > There is a freely available implementation of Ada 95 that is widely used Well, I'm a big Ada supporter and user, but I have to say that this is not quite as true as it seems - at least on UNIX. Certainly, if you are developing a product you will want to have support for the implementation vehicle. For good or ill, that support _is_ more expensive than for C/C++ stuff. This is recent "voice of experience" speaking here. > price competition, but nothing could be further from the truth! Aonix > has an Ada 95 compiler for Windows NT/Win 95 and competes energetically > with GNAT. I would say that the Aonix NT ObjectAda compiler _is_ definitely competitive in price with any C/C++ kind of stuff and the capabilities are way beyond anything in C/C++. That's for the complete enterprise level support package. Hat's off to Aonix for this extremely useful product line/pricing offering. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Synquiry Technologies, Ltd., Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari