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,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert I. Eachus" Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/04/02 Message-ID: <37055F3D.8F0B05A6@mitre.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 462120770 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk> <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net> <7di6r6$bhd@drn.newsguy.com> <7diro7$1jo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7dj8vi$2qi@drn.newsguy.com> <36FFAC73.F8B69D31@nospam.lmco.com> <7doiu3$m03$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <370075B2.63D03A21@spam.com> <7dqap0$6i1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3700B60A.328AA9E0@spam.com> <7dr1f4$qhu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: The MITRE Corporation Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@gnat.com wrote: > But several people have contributed useful components (e.g. > Robert Eachus provided the random number generation > routines and the COBOL-style editing routines), and these > are now a fully maintained part of the GNAT sources. Thanks for the nice words, but I can't take all the credit. The code you have is based on the Ada Technologly Insertion Program work Dave Emery, Ben Brosgol, and I did for AJPO. Yes, I did write most of the code for those two parts of a much larger code library. Dave and Ben both wrote significant parts and we were all involved in design and testing. If you want to find some of the other code, lots of it now OBE since it was for Ada 83, and a lot of those features are now in Ada 95, look for ADAR in the public domain libraries. Incidently, as far as I am concerned that was one of the most productive ATIPs the AJPO ever sponsored. A lot of the work we did on that contract had a significant influence on the design of Ada 95, and in a few cases we expected Ada 95 vendors to make free with the code. (Which is why it was released as public domain with no copyright.)