Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if...

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message news:<x7velcy6m3h.fsf@pushface.org>...
> I work in a company very like those and we have had no 
> trouble from our accountants buying support from ACT (and 
> I'm fairly sure we don't have a physical box even yet, 
> could be wrong there).

Well I am not sure when your support contract started, but
we definitely mail off handsome blue boxes with a CD ROM
and printed manuals. Generally people get started by
downloading from the Ada Core Technologies site, so it
is possible you have not got your box yet, but you 
definitely should receive it, so if you don't contact
sales@gnat.com or sales@act-europe.fr and ask where your
box is :-)

Seriously, we do find that people like to have printed
manuals, especially to get started. Of course the printed
manuals do get out of date, as does the CD ROM in the box,
but they are a good starting point and the blue box looks
very nice on the shelf!

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies