From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: logarithms on ada
Date: 1997/03/12
Date: 1997-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3326f2f3.36979244@news.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.858123447@merv
dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
>i
>John McCabe says
>
><<Seems to be some subtlety here on what is and isn't a project. My
<..snip..>
>
> Hmm! I am talking about typical large scale DoD projects that certainly
> start, certainly go on to produce a specific piece of equipment, but
> that do not seem so easily to end! They tend to get maintained and
> upgraded, and in some cases, moving the software to Ada 95 is a natural
> part of this ongoing maintenance and upgrading.
That's cleared that up then.
>
> Obviously a project of the type you are discussing will not change
> compilers in midstream, they very likely will not even change versions
> of the compiler, let alone chnage versions of the language.
You're quite right, especially when your customer mandates a
particular version of a particular compiler; a very stupid idea when
they specify it before anyone's had a chance to find out it's
problems!
>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 :-)
>
> Well don't worry, you are not in our database anyway. very likely
> you got your version from other than one of the FTP sites for which
> we maintain data (and indeed there are MANY people who get GNAT from
> other than our monitored FTP sites, including large numbers of students
> who get it from their local academic environment).
I generally get things like that from whichever server answers me
quickest out of the list on your ACT web page.
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 ` Tom Moran
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
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12 0:00 ` John McCabe [this message]
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Darren C Davenport
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