From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2702c1ed8be62863 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: What ada 83 compiler is *best* Date: 1998/12/09 Message-ID: <1998Dec9.092835.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 420442075 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <3666F5A4.2CCF6592@maths.unine.ch> <1998Dec8.174032.1@eisner> <74kuja$72s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 913213723 3620 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <74kuja$72s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dewarr@my-dejanews.com writes: > In article <1998Dec8.174032.1@eisner>, > Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote: >> I have yet to find supported Ada95 compilers for: >> >> MVS Popular, Currently available >> OS400 Popular, Currently available >> HP-MPE Currently available >> VAX/VMS Popular, Currently available >> Macintosh 68K Popular >> Alpha NT Currently available >> >> Giving Ada95 an answer of "Yes" for question 1 seems > dubious to me. > > > The MVS and OS400 entries seem a fair point. The issue > here of course is simply lack of interest. What after all > is interesting in fact is not whether there are compilers > for all machines, but rather whether lack of compilers is > ever an issue. Lack of Ada 95 compilers on MVS and OS400 > is simply not an issue, since no one is interested at the > current time. > Again, I think the interesting thing here is that we are > now at a stage where lack of compilers is not a significant > factor in Ada 95 usage. Yes, there are some machines which > still don't have Ada 95 support, but this reflects more of > a lack of significant interest in Ada 95 on that target > than anything else. I do not disagree about the extent to which a lack of compilers affects Ada popularity. I do not disagree that lack of Ada 95 usage affects the availability of compilers. The statement with which I was disagreeing was that Ada95 was available on "all popular and currently available" operating systems. Ada advocacy should be tempered by accuracy so as to distinguish it from the rest of the computer industry. :-) Larry Kilgallen