Re: Implementing Annex E (was: !!! WHERE CAN I FIND A GOOD FREE ADA 83 OR 95 COMPILER FOR MY PC ??? !!!)

[dewar@gnat.com]

In article <70r00c$slp$1@nnrp02.primenet.com>,
  Joseph Wisniewski <wisniew@primenet.com> wrote:
> Business is business. I desperately needed one of the ASIS annexes
> that, as far as I know, no vendor implemented. At least no one knew
> of any vendor who did. Rational, in essence told me that it would be
> too difficult for the potential customer base, which Rational interpreted
> as "Who has asked us for this." Answer: No one, you are the first.
> Therefore there is no market. Now that determination of the "market
> needs" can certainly be debated, the bottom line is the reason some of
> the annexes don't get implemented is because someone has decided there
> it isn't worth it.
>
> Joe


Yes, of course this is most certainly true. And particularly in the case of
Annex E, the implementation effort is significant (we estimate that we have
spent something like 10-15 person years of effort in implementing Annex E).

By the way, you might want to communicate your ASIS needs to ACT. As far as
I know, we have implemented pretty much all of ASIS at this stage, certainly
we have implemented all annexes used by our customer base as far as I know.

Robert B. K. Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

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