From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Does GNAT GPL 2010 have C++?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:23:20 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2010-09-16T05:23:20-07:00 [thread overview]
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On 16 Wrz, 14:35, Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Glos...@ACM.org>
wrote:
> |I wonder if we'll have to wait another year for a fix?" |
> |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
>
> Why not build GNAT and G++ yourself?
Because it might take even longer, especially without the necessary
experience.
Consider this: some time ago there was a discussion here about selling
Ada to the C shop. Take into account that in practice "the C shop"
will be "the C++ shop". Now, a very strong argument for Ada was that
it can integrate with existing codebase by means of interfacing and
direct linking. Guess what - it will not work for this shop without
the C++ compiler that is ABI-consistent with the C and Ada parts.
And the suggestion to build GNAT and g++ yourself is a sure way to
abandon the whole proposal.
It is in the best interest of AdaCore to produce consistent package
that targets C++ together with C and Ada. Without it many programmers
and whole shops will simply be discouraged from considering Ada
seriously.
Or maybe it does not really matter that much for the Mac OS X.
I don't know what AdaCore thinks about it, but certainly I would like
to see a complete package for Mac.
--
Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com
YAMI4 - Messaging Solution for Distributed Systems
http://www.inspirel.com/yami4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-16 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-16 6:47 Does GNAT GPL 2010 have C++? Jerry
2010-09-16 7:20 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-09-16 7:35 ` Jerry
2010-09-16 12:35 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-09-16 12:23 ` Maciej Sobczak [this message]
2010-09-16 22:26 ` Jerry
2010-09-16 23:29 ` Simon Wright
2010-09-17 8:50 ` Jerry
2010-09-17 11:21 ` sjw
2010-09-19 14:13 ` Simon Wright
2010-09-19 16:35 ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-21 7:20 ` Jerry
2010-09-16 23:28 ` Gautier write-only
2010-09-16 13:55 ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-16 22:21 ` Jerry
2010-09-16 10:50 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-09-16 10:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-09-16 12:23 ` sjw
2010-09-16 20:37 ` John B. Matthews
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