Re: Government Policy on Ada Acquisitions

[mbayern@mlb.win.net (Mark Bayern)]

 
In article <9409081234.AA07258@eurocontrol.de>, Bob Wells #402 (wel@EUROCONTROL.DE) writes:
>Jim Dorman/Thomes <aetechca@powergrid.electriciti.com> wrote:
>
>> What will be the benefits of the proliferation of free non-
>> validated, partially implemented, non-supported, un-maintained Ada
>> compilers and libraries? I believe we can logically expect the
>> same kind of razor-sharp support from NYU as we get from the Post
>> Office.
>>
>
>G'day,
>All I can say is that after getting two copies of your demo disk, both
>of which didn't work, I not so sure about the razor-sharp support found
>in *some* non-socialist compiler vendors.
>Bob W. (-:
>

Well, I got support from AETECH a few years ago.  Only after
calling and complaining loudly that the stuff I bought simply
didn't work, and the documentation wasn't even consistient on a
single page!  Turned out that the formal definition of the
function didn't match the example given on the same page, and the
compiler didn't like either one!  AETECH ended up sending me the
source code for the package specs so I could see how to code the
call. 

I'll take GNU's 'support' any day over what I've gotten from some
commercial vendors.  (Alsys is good, but does cost big $$'s)

Mark