Re: Is 3.15p -still- the latest GNAT 'p' release?

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Well, we might discover that Microsoft actually *agrees* with that 
assessment in the sense that they can see their own customers resisting 
purchasing new versions of software because the old ones still work & 
get the job done fine. Hence, they have to keep coming up with schemes 
to either tempt you or force you to buy the next generation product. 
That's one reason they feel so threatened by things like Linux and Open 
Office - sooner or later those products stabilize and provide 99.9% of 
all the features anyone really needs and so why does someone need to buy 
a new generation of word processor or spreadsheet?

Ada compiler vendors OTOH can likely count on ongoing language changes, 
new computer architectures to target and continual improvement in the 
efficiency and quality of the code they generate to keep demand up for 
new releases of a compiler. But still, I've had projects freeze the 
compiler version in order to achieve stability and were still able to 
get the job done. Old software that works is often "Good Enough".

MDC

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
> Heh, I was refraining from saying just that for fear of looking like
> an emotional Ada bigot and Microsoft basher.  Now there's two of us :)
> 


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