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From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: logarithms on ada
Date: 1997/03/12
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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>