Re: Ada 95 for VMS?

[l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com (Garlington KE)]

Bob Koehler (koehler@bessta.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:

: In article <3j0gjq$h64@news.aero.org>, johnson@skyvu.aero.org ("Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged") writes:
: >
: >Does Digital have any intention of developing an Ada 95 compiler for VMS?  
: >I just spoke to someone at Rational who stated that there will be one 
: >developed for OSF/1 on the Alpha only.  How about the VAX and VMS?  I 
: >already know the reasons why they might not.  I'm just looking for some
: >kind of verification (preferably from DEC people "in-the-know").

: FYI: DEC has announced their intention to maintain their existing Ada product
: and resell a third party Ada 95.

But the "third party" Ada 95 (Rational) is only currently intended for OSF/1.
"Maintenance" of DEC Ada is not currently planned to include Ada 95.

DEC does not appear to be interested in supporting Ada 95 for VMS on any
platform. I haven't heard of anyone else jumping into this market, although
there will be at least one set of VAX-hosted cross-compilers that will
support Ada 95 (Tartan).

There are rumors that DEC is performing a business case study to see if a
VAX-hosted Ada 95 compiler is a good idea, but no one at DEC that supports
F-22 can tell us anything about it.

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