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, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,158487271641b6d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: Gnat 3.11 whinings Date: 1999/01/26 Message-ID: <36AE5528.7AAF40EF@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 437307958 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <78kus9$4nv$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78l3en$8sb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news7.ispnews.com 917394014 206.103.56.18 (Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:40:14 EDT) Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:40:14 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > I would suggest that discussions which are specific to > GNAT will probably be more fruitful on chat@gnat.com. > You are right again, Robert. Someone posted a more succinct version of my question there and got what looks to be a complete and explicit answer explaining how to build Windows DLL's with GNAT. Hooray and thanks. To continue what I was saying in reference to the 'making Ada popular' thread (which is why I decided to post my gnat wuestion here), this is a big step ahead for GNAT and Ada. As Jerry van Dijk noted, the Ada tools market is (only!) $100 million. Given software companies might aim for $1 million of revenue per employee if they are selling at mass-market and competitive prices with healthy marketing budgets, that would mean that the entire Ada tools industry can only support on the order of 100 employees (more if expenses, wages, and profits are lower). This gives a pretty good indication that it will be a long time before Ada has everything that everybody wants (The development team for MSVC++ was more than 100 people). So the ability to put code into DLL's, to give more chance forr Ada to do the things that it does well as part of a multi-language system looks important to getting Ada into more common usage. Kudos. Al