Re: An Ada advocacy method

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> You might also pull together a disk that includes Gnat, GtkAda, GPS, and 
> a few other useful things and be ready to hand it off to a student that 
> is curious. Give them an instant Ada Programming Environment and they 
> might install it on their PC and start having fun.

Another approach is to take a Knoppix distro, and GNAT
enable it, for those that want a UNIX flavour. You might have
to discard some "stuff" they don't need, to make everything
fit 700MB.

Warren.

> But then that would start up my usual rant about how there isn't a 
> nicely integrated, all-in-one, just-open-the-box-and-use-it Ada 
> Programming Kit. You've got all these disjointed pieces all over the 
> place that are extremely loosely coupled and it really needs to be a 
> whole, integrated package. (uh-oh! I'm foaming at the mouth again!)
> 
> MDC

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