From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9b30240b5a381bbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-21 12:40:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? Date: 21 Aug 2002 12:40:39 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0208211140.53d594e7@posting.google.com> References: <5ee5b646.0208191613.21291d5@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0208201029.3e4b09e@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.49 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1029958839 22921 127.0.0.1 (21 Aug 2002 19:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Aug 2002 19:40:39 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28293 Date: 2002-08-21T19:40:39+00:00 List-Id: Dmitry A.Kazakov wrote in message news:... > Robert Dewar wrote: > [How somebody could have a "hard evidence" that something will be? (:-))] > Anyway to be important /= to be important to Ada. AFAIK, ARM is already > important. A minimal requirement for making it important for Ada is to have > a compiler for it. Very simple, if someone comes to us and says: "I want/need an Ada compiler and I would like to see you guys do a GNAT port and I am willing to pay for the product," then that will get our attention. If someone says "Well I am sure that if you write a compiler and sell it inexpensively, then masses of people will flock to buy it," then frankly we won't listen. It's not our business area. Companies can't do everytyhing. It may be that there is a real business opportunity there, who knows? At Ada Core, we are dubious (partly because we have seen more than one company try this approach and fail), but competition is all about people having different views. When Tom tried to sell low cost copies of the Windows version of GNAT, we were happy to cooperate with him, but unfortunately he just did not find enough customers to make it worth while. So if you folks really think ARM is important and that you can take the embedded world by storm with a GNAT port for the ARM, go ahead. No one is stopping you! Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies