From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: logarithms on ada
Date: 1997/03/11
Date: 1997-03-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3325aa1d.685903@news.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.858027935@merv
dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
>John McCabe said
>
> 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.
>
>That's much too great a generalization. We are finding a lot of projects
>that do want to adapt to Ada 95 over time. Perhaps one of the most
>dramatic examples of this is the significant demand for a port of
>GNAT to the VAX from several large projects. These are certainly
>not projects that are furiously adapting to the latest hardware,
>but they see the move to Ada 95 as a way of getting more milage
>out of existing hardware on an existing project.
Seems to be some subtlety here on what is and isn't a project. My
comments have tended to restrict a project to something that starts,
goes on to produce a specific piece of equipment, then ends -
basically a bespoke software / hardware item whereas you seem to be
considering more of a product based thing.
>Of course there are projects that will not adapt at all, but we are
>surprised how many projects are switching to at least some use of
>Ada 95 in mid-stream.
>
> 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.
>
>I am talking about people who pick up more than one version for the same
>target, so you would not be on that particular radar screen!
>
Ok, so I've also got a copy of GNAT 3.03 and 3.04 for DOS, and 2.07
for Sun Sparc that I don't use :-)
Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-02 0:00 logarithms on ada Brian R Franklin
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Bob Klungle
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Andrew Dunstan
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Bob Klungle
1997-03-05 0:00 ` David Shochat
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-04 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-07 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-09 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-10 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11 0:00 ` John McCabe [this message]
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Darren C Davenport
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Tom Moran
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