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,cec04f9d45b3f527 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-29 06:05:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Ada advocacy method References: <3F4F4817.7030306@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <3F4F4817.7030306@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:50:49 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1062161436 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:50:36 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:50:36 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41942 Date: 2003-08-29T08:50:49-04:00 List-Id: 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 -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg