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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe) Subject: Re: Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java) Date: 1999/02/03 Message-ID: <36b89f98.2045516@news.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 440286166 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: assen.demon.co.uk:158.152.218.101 References: <78kk11$qmd$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78ks1t$253$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36affcb4.14065782@news.geccs.gecm.com> <36B1F27A.6762@gecm.com> <78tm5g$kb1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36b7695a.2630918@news.geccs.gecm.com> <873e4oqtz1.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com> X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 918069052 nnrp-13:20849 NO-IDENT assen.demon.co.uk:158.152.218.101 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Date: 1999-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Chris Morgan wrote: >abuse@borpin.demon.co.uk (Brian Orpin) writes: > >> What you have is not a general ada-mode for Emacs but a specific >> gnat-mode. That is a very poor implementation of the spirit of Emacs. >> You have basically hijacked the mode for your own ends and then forced it >> on the unsuspecting emacs Ada community by calling it ada-mode. >Nonsense. The name is irrelevant and I hardly think they have forced >anything on anyone. A free Ada compiler offers an Ada mode for a free >editor package. The distribitors call it ada-mode. You can take their >code and do what you like to it, rename any function, stick it on your >web server in a "corrected" form and so on. The point is that there is an *official* ada-mode that is bundled with GNU Emacs and is maintained by an *official* maintainer. By making significant changes that affect the generality of the package without renaming it has confused the issue. >I think you will find that Richard Stallman would be quite unconcerned >that Emacs Ada mode works best with GNU Ada. After all he only >recently suggested switching GNU libraries to GPL rather than LGPL >leaving commercial software out in the cold. Of course in this case I >doubt ACT will agree with him having demonstrated concern for the >wider Ada community more adequately at this stage. I would think that he may be concerned that someone other than the official maintainer of ada-mode for Emacs is passing off their version as Emacs' ada-mode. Best Regards John McCabe