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: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-04 15:28:21 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: 4 Dec 1994 17:59:17 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3bthk5$ofs@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <1994Nov29.154220.27952@cognos.com> <589@scribendum.win-uk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:8264 comp.lang.c:33329 comp.programming:5606 comp.lang.c++:39553 comp.object:9410 Date: 1994-12-04T17:59:17-05:00 List-Id: In article <589@scribendum.win-uk.net>, Stephen Benson wrote: >I know little of Ada... but isn't Gnu/gcc about to support it? I think I've >seen news to this effect. Which would make it cheap, widely disseminated and >constantly updated... It exists already and is called GNAT; you can ftp GNAT from cs.nyu.edu, directory pub/gnat. It is integrated into the gcc toolchain. Not quite finished, but ports exist for SunOS, Solaris, Linux, OS/2, DOS, SGI, DEC Alpha. It's written in itself, not in C, so porting to new platforms requires cross-compiling the first version. An adapted gcc back-end is used. As is always the case with GNU software, full source code can be ftp-ed, and is fascinating to read. The GNAT team (at NYU, Florida State, and elsewhere) has done a great job! At the moment, GNAT supports nearly all of Ada 9X and supports more and more at each release. Releases occur roughly monthly these days. Try it. Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the World-Wide Web: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Illegitimi non carborundum." (Don't let the bastards grind you down.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------