Re: Ada saved by gnat (was Re: Where's Aetech?)

[tore@lis.pitt.edu (Tore Joergensen)]

Jim Dorman (jimd@pcada.com) wrote:
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: GNAT may have some new Ada9X features, but so does Janus Ada's new
: compiler. GNAT's got nothing else -- no high-level libraries like
: IntegrAda for Windows, no GUI builder like Visual Ada. It's not
: validated. It's easy to break with real source code, and there's
: no-one to call when it does! 
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The nice thing about GNAT is that the source-code is available, and that
everybody can port it to other operating systems if they want to (and have
the neccessary knowledge). I am not interested in Ada for windows. I use
OS/2 and want an Ada95 compiler for OS/2. If I could get a commercial one
with a good PM-library, a good debugger and new & better versions coming
out every now and then, that would be great! But I am not converting
to Microsofts toy-operating system just because there isn't any commercial
OS/2 Ada95 compilers around (If anybody can tell me that there is really
a commercial high quality Ada95 compiler for OS/2 (That costs less than
$1000) I will be happy). In fact, I would rather use C++ than MS Windows! 

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: It seems to me that this government-sponsored playground of free
: software and cyber-bitching about commercial Ada products and
: vendors is both infantile and extraordinarily dangerous to the very
: companies that we must have to support our mission critical systems
: in the future...and they are nearly all gone!
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: John Galt
It also makes some people stay with Ada95 instead of jumping over to C++.
For the moment, I am only doing assignments/projects in Ada95, so I can
live with GNAT and work around the problems. However, I would love to
have a compiler/environment that didn't look ugly compared to what C++
programmers can buy, and I would buy it if it was for OS/2 and not to
expensive. 

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: I'm out here to make a living. I have no government contract paying
: my salary or expenses, and I don't have time  to read every message
: posted on comp.lang.ada. I offer a variety of Ada products from
: multiple vendors, including some of my own, but I have never seen
: positive comments about commercial Ada products that did have a large
: dose of criticism included. Obviously, everything could be improved!
: But did anyone not buy a new car because the cigarette lighter was 
: round instead of square like you preferred? Did you not buy a box of
: Cheerios at the grocery store because you wanted the packing to be a
: light blue color instead of the standard yellow??
No, but I don't buy books written in spanish, since I can't read it. Do
you sell much/anything for OS/2?

: I think a better approach would be to support the vendors, advise them,
: not the world, of any product shortcomings and give them an opportunity
: to "fix or add" your personal pet item. Have we forgotten the old adage..

:   If you don't like it, tell me
:   If you do like it, tell the world
(psst... I don't like MS Windows) HI WORLD! I LIKE Ada95!!!

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: Jim Dorman
: President
: Active Engineering
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