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From: Neil O'Brien <obrien@east.thomsoft.com>
Subject: RE: Ada News Brief
Date: 1996/10/29
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On Sunday, October 27, 1996, Robert Dewar wrote...
[SNIP] 
> 
> Well I am not sure this is in your favor. I think it is important to
educate
> people away from the expectation that an Ada 83 switch will work
perfectly
> on their Ada 83 code. There are two reasons.
> 
> 1. The switch from an Ada 83 to an Ada 95 compiler may involve changes
in
> implementatoin dependent choices (e.g. the behavior of representation 
> pragmas). This is especially likely to be so if you are switching
> front ends (VADS to GNAT, or DEC to Rational, or Alsys to TSP).
> 

Just to clarify, Alsys and TSP are one and the same, we may have 3
front-ends associated with different technologies (RISCAda, AdaWorld and
ObjectAda) but 
the front-ends did not change because of a company name change.



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