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: 103376,6e70c13232dc4a26 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe) Subject: Re: logarithms on ada Date: 1997/03/10 Message-ID: <332452f0.2520508@news.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 224452201 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: assen.demon.co.uk References: <5fcqrs$ius@panther.Gsu.EDU> <331c6ce7.856445@news.demon.co.uk> <33205b8c.1147493@news.demon.co.uk> <332333b3.43429911@news.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >John McCabe said > > < > >Absolutely, that's exactly what I mean by slow to adapt, big projects >don't jump on new technology band wagons fast, and rightly so! You misunderstand what I'm saying here - it's not that *projects* are slow to adapt, it's that they don't adapt at all. > <<**Note - not including GNAT, but how widely used is GNAT in large > safety and mission critical systems?.>> > >I don't know why GNAT should be excluded in your mind. I have excluded GNAT since as far as I am aware, no other vendor provides anywhere near as many variations (host/target) at this time. >A significant number of mission critical projects, >including some safety critical projects have selected GNAT as the >Ada 95 technology of choice. Unless you have some very mainstream requirements, I wouldn't say you have much choice so far with Ada 95, but that's even the case with Ada 83 if you're looking at cross-compilers. >As time goes on we will see more and >more deployed projects using Ada 95 in general, and GNAT in >particular. I certainly hope so. <..snip..> > >In addition, we get some indication from the fact that many thousands >of people have picked up more than one version -- a pretty good indication >that they are using it! > Well I have a copy of GNAT 3.05 for DOS, one for Solaris and a copy of the NT version 3.04, but I am not using them so your conclusion here is not guaranteed. Anyway, this has gone a bit too far off-topic. If the original poster lets us know what version of Ada he's using then we could probably be more helpful. It's a bit pointless giving information on how to do things in Ada 95, if they're not supported in Ada 83 and that's the version someone is using. Best Regards John McCabe