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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bf43a183ce108291 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-09 00:39:18 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!slsv6bt!slbh01.bln.sel.alcatel.de!rcvie!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Government Policy on Ada Acquisitions Date: 8 Sep 1994 12:03:17 -0400 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <34nck5$pbu@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1994-09-08T12:03:17-04:00 List-Id: In article , wrote: >On the other hand, GNAT might very well be a piece of crap that >is too large, too slow, too hard to modify, too costly to bring >to validation, and so on. If that's the case, I could see why >vendors would want to steer clear of it in favor of their own, >ground up development. (This was true of lots of early Ada83 >software that was funded by the government.) It would be very easy for you to check this out for yourself. Just ftp it. Got a DOS box? Got an OS/2 box? If vendors are _not_ spending some effort trying to figure out how they can exploit GNAT to their advantage, they are more out of it than I was even giving them credit for. >But from the noise I hear from this and other nets concerning >GNAT, I don't get the impression that it is a hopeless corpus of >software. It may very well be possible to take GNAT, target it to >a few critical systems (PC, Mac, PowerPC,...) and produce a >commercially viable product for, say, under $200 and get it out >there competing with C/C++ and all the rest. Well, the source code for the _compiler_ would still have to be provided (GPL license terms), but you are absolutely right about the rest. > >Anyone out there interested in starting up a venture? You serious? Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5253 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) "Pork is all that stuff the government gives the other guys." ------------------------------------------------------------------------