From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 22 Sep 93 03:42:30 GMT From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: Current state of Ada 9X compilers...? Message-ID: <1993Sep22.034230.8747@seas.gwu.edu> List-Id: In article groleau@e7sa.crd.ge.com (Wes Groleau x1240 C73-8) writes: >In article <27hagd$7qc@klaava.Helsinki.FI> stickler@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Patric M Stickler) writes: >>In article <1993Sep18.163712.8933@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> blaak@csri.toronto .edu (Raymond Blaak) writes: >>>P.S. The GNAT project may just be the best thing that has happened for Ada. >>Ok, we have one strong vote of interest. Any others? ;-) > >Some will say that GNAT may be the worst thing--because vendors, unable to >compete with "free" will drop out. I disagree. I suspect that "winning >converts" to Ada will help the vendors even if "competition" from GNAT >undercuts them. The reason is that many companies don't trust "free-ware" >and may buy commercial products once someone or something convinces them Ada >is not a joke. My discussions with vendor folks suggest that Wes is right. GNAT will serve as exellent propaganda for Ada9X and will help the vendors by taking some heat off them while they get it right for their desired customer bases. Meanwhile, the rest of us can enjoy GNAT, and even hack on it because we have the source code. I really believe GNAT is win/win/win. Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - co-chair, SIGAda Education Committee Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5253 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) "We just changed our CONFIG.SYS, then pressed CTRL-ALT-DEL. It was easy." -- Alexandre Giglavyi, director Lyceum of Information Technologies, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------