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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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On Nov 19, 6:15=A0pm, leo.bre...@internode.on.net wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've been a long time user of Pascal and I'm worried that my compiler
> of choice, gpc pascal for MacOSX, may fall over in the next release of
> MacOSX. The good folks that have supported gpc Pascal over the years
> are unlikely to do the job on an ongoing basis. So I need a plan B
> which currently is to port my roughly 1 million lines of code to Ada.
> My worry is that I might run into the same problem with Ada -- can I
> be sure that Ada will continue to be part of the GCC compiler suite
> for a long time?

Well, since it's open source, I think you can save all the sources.
Then even if all the GCC and GNAT developers decide to quit tomorrow
and become stock brokers or musicians or whatever, you'll still have
the sources and should still be able to compile them, as long as
there's a C compiler available, which I think will be the case
forever.

                         -- Adam