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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5139fc56317e5bf1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-12 03:06:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!feedme.news.mediaways.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!news0.de.colt.net!peernews2.colt.net!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pipehawk.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How many Ada programmers does it take to change a light bulb? Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:06:01 GMT Organization: Emrad Ltd Message-ID: <3c68f4c7.8327514@news.demon.co.uk> References: <3C672981.EF98DCB2@acm.org> <3c679ff6.5846156@news.demon.co.uk> <3C67AEF6.CE33656E@earthlink.net> <3c67df2f.22031249@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1013511930 nnrp-14:7750 NO-IDENT pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19915 Date: 2002-02-12T11:06:01+00:00 List-Id: On 11 Feb 2002 20:07:51 +0100, Pascal Obry 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