Re: Ada

[Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>]

In article <38690E47.7DBDC2D1@quadruscorp.com>,
	"Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> wrote:

>> 5) Tools.  Books, compilers, development environments, are all more
>> available and cheaper for C than for Ada.  I can go into a local
>
>Definitely. I was recently at a big electronics store in San Jose and
>looked through their stacks of books relating to programming &
>languages. Hundreds of books available on C, C++, Perl, Cobol, etc. Not
>a single text on Ada, even though many good ones exist. It is sort of a
>deadlock situation - The store doesn't want to stock something for which
>there won't be a reasonable level of sales. The potential vendors don't
>want to subsidize it because revenues are too thin to do so. The
>potential users have little interest because it isn't just sitting right
>there waiting for them to pick it up. The deadlock continues.

Marin,

Sounds as if you were visiting Fry's Electronics, our local Silicon
Valley Computer Circus.  For serious literature on anything related
to computers, Fry's is not a good choice.  Instead, we have a local
bookstore, Computer Literacy Bookshops  (www.fatbran.com), which has
a representative selection of Ada books.  Next time you are looking
for computer books in Silicon Valley, don't go to Fry's.  Go to 
Computer Literacy Bookshops.  

BTW, many of us who buy computers and computer gear stay away from
Fry's.  I have had such bad experiences with their service that I will
not buy anything from them unless there is no choice.  There
are lots of good alternatives here is SV.  Next time you are in 
SV, give me a call and I will direct you to some better options. 

Richard Riehle