Re: Dec Ditching Ada?

[James Squire <jsquire@mdc.com>]

Robert Dewar wrote:

> There is no secret here. The cooperation between DEC and Ada Core
> Technologies was announced last year at Tri-Ada. The contract is now
> in place, and we expect to start field-testing of the GNAT Ada 95
> compiler for Alpha VMS within the next couple of weeks. This is a full
> GNAT implementation with many additions for DEC Ada compatibility (e.g.
> the full implementation of all GNAT pragmas and attributes, many of
> which will be available in other GNAT implementations starting with
> GNAT release 3.07.
> 
> For DEC Unix, there is a GNAT implementation as well, and Rational has
> promised a full Ada 95 version of APEX for this configuration.

I didn't mean to say that it should be kept secret, but simply that I 
wasn't sure of my facts.

As it turns out, I was thinking of Rational, but am glad you and others 
have clarified the situation for me.
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