Re: Ada and .NET

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <uvgkrpgoe.fsf@wanadoo.fr>, Pascal Obry says...
>I'm wondering if there is an Ada compiler that will support the 
>Microsoft .NET platform ? Does somebody knows ?

Other that a PR platform, what exactly is ".NET"? Does it have a spec available
somewhere that compiler writers can write to?

If someone ported gcc to it, then a Gnat port could be done. Someone will
probably do that if it ever becomes a viable platform. But my understanding of
the GNU front is that they mostly see the whole concept as evil, and are thus
focusing on cloning it (in a freer context of course). The project is ".GNU". (
http://www.dotgnu.org )

As an aside, the project leads of ".GNU" have expressed dissatisfaction with C's
portability and Java's lack of native platform support. I managed to convince
them to consider using Ada (after all, it fixes both those problems, and has a
GNU compiler available on all major platforms), but I don't know how seriously
they'll consider it. I am *not* really interested in ".GNU" myself, so I don't
really have the moral capital to push it much further. I'd encourage anyone
seriously interested in this effort to join the ".GNU" developers mailing list
(and of course push for Ada use where a sensible and reasoned argument can be
made). You can sign up at http://dotgnu.org/mailman/listinfo/developers .

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