From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software)
Subject: Re: Ada 95 for VMS?
Date: 6 Mar 95 22:25:22 -0500
Date: 1995-03-06T22:25:22-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1995Mar6.222522.9305@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3j4mjv$4qr@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com
In article <3j4mjv$4qr@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com>, l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com (Garlington KE) writes:
> But the "third party" Ada 95 (Rational) is only currently intended for OSF/1.
> "Maintenance" of DEC Ada is not currently planned to include Ada 95.
>
> DEC does not appear to be interested in supporting Ada 95 for VMS on any
> platform. I haven't heard of anyone else jumping into this market, although
> there will be at least one set of VAX-hosted cross-compilers that will
> support Ada 95 (Tartan).
>
> There are rumors that DEC is performing a business case study to see if a
> VAX-hosted Ada 95 compiler is a good idea, but no one at DEC that supports
> F-22 can tell us anything about it.
I would certainly prefer that it was DEC Ada, based on experience with
vendors who move a "portable" implementation of something to VMS and
fail miserably on integrating it with the operating system and tools.
Larry Kilgallen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1995-03-07 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-01 0:54 Ada 95 for VMS? "Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged"
1995-03-01 6:34 ` Larry Kahn
1995-03-05 14:14 ` Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software
1995-03-01 13:11 ` Bob Koehler
1995-03-02 11:18 ` Bevin R Brett
1995-03-03 16:20 ` Garlington KE
1995-03-02 15:01 ` Garlington KE
1995-03-07 3:25 ` Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software [this message]
1995-03-06 0:04 ` Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software
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