Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!encore!pierson From: pierson@encore.com (Dan L. Pierson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Cheap/Free Ada (was: Ada9x Transition) Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 23:22:57 GMT References: <2916@sparko.gwu.edu> <2926@sparko.gwu.edu> <14412@encore.Encore.COM> Sender: news@Encore.COM Organization: Encore Computer Corporation Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: xenna.encore.com In-reply-to: jcallen@Encore.COM's message of 26 Mar 91 17:10:53 GMT Regarding Cheap/Free Ada (was: Ada9x Transition); jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen) adds: > I'd love to see AJPO drop a large parcel of unmarked bills on GNU's > doorstep, ask for no project plan, no design reviews, no 2167A doc; > just a working Ada compiler "sometime" that is freely available in > source form. Little though I like Ada, this would about the best single thing that could happen to increase Ada usage in education and thus the number of graduates familiar with the language. I suspect that the worst thing about it from the viewpoint of the true believers is that it implies that along with your Ada system you get very comparable C++, Objective-C, Modula-3 and maybe an Eiffel-like language (Sather). People would really be able to compare a suite of languages with a similar and pretty good implementation base. It seems unlikely that those who prefer that languages be selected by government mandate would welcome this sort of comparison... -- dan In real life: Dan Pierson, Encore Computer Corporation, Research UUCP: {talcott,linus,necis,decvax}!encore!pierson Internet: pierson@encore.com