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- From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
- Subject: Re: GUI Builder for Ada
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.042243.13791@seas.gwu.edu>
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- Organization: George Washington University
- References: <1992Jul27.121511.23931@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1992Jul27.182007.6433@seas.gwu.edu> <1992Jul28.170954.13472@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 04:22:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.170954.13472@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >>>
- >>>BuilderXcessory will be releasing their Ada version in Sept. 92, supposed
- >>>to be about $9,000. (The C version is about $3200)
- >>>
- >>Ah, yes. The old "rip off the Ada users" problem again. Do these guys think
- >>nobody but deep-pockets defense companies could POSSIBLY be interested in
- >>Ada development? At least the compiler vendors can fall back on the (now
- >>lame) excuse that validation is expensive. How do these guys justify it?
- >
- >Cost of the port and expected maintenance amortized over the expected
- >number of sales?
- >
- Probably so. And this level of pricing will guarantee that the number of copies
- sold will be very small. The world outside DoD has got to be pretty darn
- committed to Ada to go for this. Are there no companies out there willing
- to try to break this vicious circle?
-
- Mike Feldman
-