Re: will ada always be supported by gcc?

[Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>]

On Nov 19, 7:15 pm, 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?
>
> Many thanks, Leo

You probably already know this, but just in case: If list traffic is
any indication, Free Pascal Compiler has many more users than GPC.
(But list traffic doesn't indicate OS use.) Also, check out p2ada if
you haven't already.

FWIW, I made the switch from Pascal several years ago, but didn't
convert most of my Pascal code because the switch to Ada sort of
coincided with beginning new projects. I got tired of switching to
different Pascal dialects (THINK Pascal, Codewarrior Pascal, GPC or
FPC) and decided I might as well just switch to Ada. If I had to run
the old Pascal code today I would have a problem. Not sure what I
would do but would probably get some old computers out of the closet
and see if they still run, or get an OS 9 emulator.

At least with Ada I feel (hope?) that obsolescence might be put at bay
at least with respect to the language if not the OS--I would hope
(again, that word) that at least I would be able to run Ada on Linux
or something.

Jerry