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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c32f54b2230c68d7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Chris Miller" Subject: Re: Compilers for VAX Was: Ada version of C's 'static' Date: 1999/08/04 Message-ID: <3dbq3.4993$_Q2.43341@ozemail.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 509094427 Distribution: world References: <7n03us$862$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3798EDE9.90B9623B@averstar.com> <7nsuf3$tm9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <1999Aug3.155033.62042@ludens> <7o8ac7$iti$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Trace: ozemail.com.au 933838783 203.108.20.179 (Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:39:43 EST) Organization: OzEmail Ltd, Australia X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:39:43 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Sorry, there is no DEC Ada95 implementation for *any* machine. > DEC elected not to update their compiler technology to Ada 95. > Robert Dewar > Ada Core Technologies It's probably history now, but I think DEC's decision not to upgrade their Ada 83 compiler / debugger / linker / editor and library mgmt tools to Ada 95 was one of the dummest decisions ever made by DEC (and they made a few). Everyone liked and respected the DEC Ada products. The smart recompilation was ahead of it's time. I would suggest many users would have bought an Ada 95 version running on Alpha & VMS. Instead DEC just went into (terminal !) hibernation. It's a bit late now I suppose ... Chris Miller chrismil@ozemail.com.au 4/8/99.