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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,vmsnet.misc,vmsnet.alpha
Subject: Re: Ada 95 for VMS?
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Date: 6 Mar 95 22:25:22 -0500
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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