Re: verdix kisses off Ada

[dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura. net!seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Feldman)]

In article <C78y2J.JHv@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> erickson@cs.nps.navy.mil (David 
Erickson) writes:
>
>>Verdix does internal development in C, C++ and Ada, but generally has found
>>that Ada is the most cost effective language for new development.
>
>Does this include your C or C++ compiler?  i.e., is it written in Ada?
>(I have to admit that I hope the answer is yes - it would give me a
>certain perverse sense of satisfaction to picture the great unwashed
>masses using Ada-based tools...).
>
Equally interesting would be the prices Verdix charges for the Ada and
other compilrs on the same host-target pair.

My guess is that Verdix isn't developing its own C/C++ compilers anyway.
They may be doing tools, but unless they have changed their direction
recently, they are glomming onto others' compilers. Am I right?

Mike Feldman