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From: Gautier <Gautier.deMontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/11/02
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> Gautier, if you think it's enough of a pity to be worth it,
> why don't you create the MacOS port of GNAT.

I'm afraid you are overestimating (just a bitlet) my abilities
of auto-cloning. It is not just like launching N Ada tasks,
and maybe the synchronizing of all these copies would give a terrible
confusion. Even though, the port would be soon obsolete because
of the long-awaited, marvelous, genial MacOS X (client).

> It's a fair job, but put it this
> way: I think you have a better chance of completing this than
> Nick Roberts does of completing his optimizing Ada compiler and
> associated operating system written in Ada :-)

Thank you. You are unfair with Nick, and my knowledge of MacOS'
guts is quite poor. Just fighting with this cryptic file typing
is enough... 

There are other delirious or pharaonic projects that are worth
the effort about Ada:

 - make a true reference, pure Ada, BLAS and LAPACK set of routines
   using 'range attributes, generics for floating point to halve
   the number of routines, and exceptions for problematic cases instead
   of these bold error codes.

 - make an Ada version of GNU multiprecision (GMP), with "+", "*",...
   operators (over accessed things) and a rejoycing use of generics
   e.g. for multiprecision rationals, just pass the multi-integers
   through a generic package to obtain the field of fractions -
   see mathpaqs.zip from the page below.

 - complete the gaming library for GNAT/DOS (sound, network
   and some advanced 3D rendering/interaction remain to do)
 
 - make a support for streams in Unzip-Ada, and a Zip-Ada...

 - port GNAT to Cray, NEC SX, ... (if not already done...)

Now, let's work 8-)

-- 
Gautier

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