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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,78799911f6b888db X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-17 12:42:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-dallas!news-in-dallas.newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: Ada and .NET Message-ID: <6y057.22637$Kf3.298556@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:41:54 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:41:54 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10093 Date: 2001-07-17T19:41:54+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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 . --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com