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: 103376,93fa00d728cc528e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,93fa00d728cc528e X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-04 15:56:01 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.mathworks.com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.object Subject: Re: gcc distribution (was: SOLVED! Decoupled Mutual Recursion Challenger) Date: 4 Nov 1994 18:56:01 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <39ehmh$74p@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <38tdeo$bta@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> <392u2l$jt4@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <3986rv$fr9@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:7562 comp.object:8216 Date: 1994-11-04T18:56:01-05:00 List-Id: In article <3986rv$fr9@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>, Richard Kenner wrote: >In article <392u2l$jt4@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> ncohen@watson.ibm.com writes: >>This is distressing. One of the things that most excited me about the >>GNAT project when I first heard about it was the prospect that an Ada >>compiler would be hidden in each standard gcc distribution, and thus >>serve as a Trojan horse to sneak Ada into the camps of the C programmers. > Indeed, Robert Dewar used to say, "When GNAT becomes part of the gcc distribution, nobody will ever have to ask how to get Ada. They will have to ask how to NOT get Ada." (This is a pretty direct quote from Robert.) Oh, well, the best-laid plans etc... Mike Feldman