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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: is Ada dying?
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 22:03:37 -0700
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John McCabe wrote:

> Find me an Ada 95 compiler for a Mil-Std-1750A target then?

Alas, there seems to be none.  TLD was going to develop one, but
TLD seems to have vanished.    DDC-I is probably our last hope
for a 1750A compiler, but I don't think they have announced one,
so far.

To be fair, many believe the 1750A is a dead processor.  While this
may not be true, it seems the 1983 Ada standard serves quite well
for the kinds of programs being written for 1750A.  In my limited
experience with this processor (one project only),  the programs
don't use tasking, don't use access types, and often use only a
subset of the full range of language capabilities.   There is no
need for inheritance, dynamic binding, or most other features
found in Ada 95.   Those with experience on a larger number
of 1750A projects may have a different view.

Richard Riehle