Re: State of the compiler market

[john@mccabe.org.uk]

On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 14:28:56 UTC, Volkert  wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 9:43:42 AM UTC+1, reinkor wrote:
> > I got a bit scared from this discussion since I am investing much time in developing an application in Ada. 
> > 
> > Can Adacore's (gnat) public licence safeguard the language is available the coming 10-20 years? I.e. can I stay relaxed? :-)
> 
> I asked my myself the same question. That was 15 years ago. GNAT and its tools are still alive and they are getting better and better. I am also sure, that AdaCore has some longterm contracts ... but in some way, i am sharing you feeling, because i am not sure about the amount of new projects using Ada. 

I remember being at a presentation where Joyce Tokar was talking about the contract Tartan had to support their Ada compiler for 25 years or something on (I think) some Raptor system; I think that might've been 1994 or 1995. Presumably there is still some support for it, either from Tartan Software, Inc, for the TMS320C3x and C4x, or DDC-I for the M68K, i960 and Mil-Std-1750A but it looks like none of those even do Ada95.