Re: State of the compiler market

[Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>]

Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "Paul Rubin" <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 

>> 1. I found a few google hits for Ada 2020 but nothing like a concrete
>> list of changes or proposals.  Just "ARG is working on it".  Is there
>> anything public?
> 
> The date isn't even firm yet, so it's rather early to read too much into 
> that. But all of the work is publically available on Ada-auth.org. Summaries 
> and the like will likely wait until wee get closer to a deadline (who can 
> tell today if the parallel block and loop stuff will get mature enough to 
> include??).

If parallel blocks / loops aren't included, Ada will miss the boat *again*
wrt massively parallel architectures. I can see Ada being used for GPGPU
and shaders, e.g. SPIR-V generation using Ada.

If this happens, sorry to say but we may as well let it die and define a
new language inspired by Ada for future work as Ada will never seem to move
on and expand into different and well deserving areas. 


>> 2. Is there really serious difficulty extending an Ada 95 compiler to
>> handle Ada 2012?
> 
> Everything is possible with software, but 

Not everything. See stupid "I want X impossible software project" on
guru.com

Luke