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From: dragon@trwspf.TRW.COM (Roger Vossler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Assembly language (was: Re: Another 1.3 wish.)
Message-ID: <389@trwspf.TRW.COM>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 02:04:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: trwspf.389
Posted: Tue Aug 25 02:04:34 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Aug-87 01:43:12 EDT
References: <8707190424.AA10158@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: dragon@trwspf.UUCP (Roger Vossler)
Organization: TRW - Data Systems Lab., Redondo Beach, CA
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Keywords: No affordable validated home Ada compilers.

In article <2176@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
*The cheapest validated personal computer Ada compiler still
*porks in above $1000, last I heard.  (I've given up waiting, and
*ordered a Modula 2 compiler for personal use, $200 list.)  So, code
*written in Ada might as well be pseudocode, for all most of us care
*for our own use.

Although we are a large defense contractor and are using Ada, members of
my group have used Modula-2 very successfully on a number of efforts
internally. Modula-2 makes a very nice, small, cheap, fast, and powerful
subset of Ada, particularly, when we have to pay for it out of our own
pockets. 8-) Taxpayers may not be too concerned about how their money is
spent, but stockholders are less charitable.
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