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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5d0b5af12e09c9d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." Subject: Re: HTML as GNAT source Date: 1998/02/05 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980205161409.0085f870@mail.4dcomm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 322647564 Sender: Ada programming language References: <9802050057.AA06150@nile.gnat.com> X-Sender: rleif@mail.4dcomm.com Comments: To: Robert Dewar Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: To: Robert Dewar Ph.D. et al. From: Bob Leif, Ph.D. Since the original discussion was on GNAT Chat, one could not presume that the other compiler vendors and tool manufacturers even knew about this discussion. Therefore following your previous examples concerning subjects which were of general relevance to Ada rather than specific to GNAT, I published my reply on Comp.Lang.Ada. Although I believe that it is of great benefit to the Ada community to have tools developed for GNAT, I also strongly believe that every reasonable effort should be made to provide these tools to other Ada compiler vendors. I believe that there will be many ASIS based tools, which will be separate entities from the compilers. Of course, the back ends of these will have to interface with the specific compiler in use. However, one of the major purposes of ASIS is to work with all Ada compilers which have implemented ASIS. An ASIS implementation is one of the great advantages GNAT has over some of its competitors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- At 07:57 PM 2/4/98 EST, you wrote: ><HTML will not discriminate against any of the vendors. Let them all build >editors and other tools based on HTML. This way the front ends and other >tools will be portable and will work with the HTML version of the Language >Reference Manual. > >The next step will be to build a front end to ASIS which works under HTML. > >I have taken the liberty to cross post this to Comp.Lang.Ada because I >believe that HTML based editors and tools are a generic Ada subject, which >should be instantiated with all of the vendor's products. >>> > >How can any GNAT-based effort *discriminate* against any Ada vendor. What >an odd idea. In fact, GNAT is unique in that any effort leads to a work >product whose ideas can be freely accessed and adapted by any other >vendor, whereas other vendors keep their tecgnologies guarded and secret! > >I do not know what you mean by a front end to ASIS which works under HTML. >The "front end" to ASIS *is* the compiler! > >