Re: How many Ada programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

[john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe)]

On 11 Feb 2002 20:07:51 +0100, Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

>Well and if nobody answer this question from time to time the Goodle Groups
>answer would be:

>  You can use the latest GNAT compiler from Nov 1998 - bleeding edge
>  technologie that is under active developement. Be sure to also check
>  the Ada Home web site for recent information.

As you are no doubt aware, GNAT has been available at
ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat for a very long time now, so the fact that
someone suggested looking there for a November 1998 release is
probably still fairly valid. Besides, what version of GNAT was current
in 1998? Is it *so* much different from now? Doesn't the newsgroup
have a FAQ that could be referred to?

I have to admit I was in the same position when I started using
newsgroups - I had no idea there was somewhere you could look to see
what had already been posted (DejaNews then), but that was 8 years or
so ago and there were not that many references in magazines and
suchlike to useful sites.

Anyway - I don't really want to continue this as an argument - it's
just that I've spent the last few weeks seeing newsgroup articles
asking exactly the same question I asked only 3 or 4 weeks before and
I'm a bit frustrated.

So I'm sorry - OK?

Slainthe
John