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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2702c1ed8be62863 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: What ada 83 compiler is *best* Date: 1998/12/09 Message-ID: <74kuja$72s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 420315361 References: <3666F5A4.2CCF6592@maths.unine.ch> <1998Dec8.174032.1@eisner> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x9.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Dec 09 04:33:45 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1998-12-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1998Dec8.174032.1@eisner>, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote: > I have yet to find supported Ada95 compilers for: > > MVS Popular, Currently available > OS400 Popular, Currently available > HP-MPE Currently available > VAX/VMS Popular, Currently available > Macintosh 68K Popular > Alpha NT Currently available > > Giving Ada95 an answer of "Yes" for question 1 seems dubious to me. The MVS and OS400 entries seem a fair point. The issue here of course is simply lack of interest. What after all is interesting in fact is not whether there are compilers for all machines, but rather whether lack of compilers is ever an issue. Lack of Ada 95 compilers on MVS and OS400 is simply not an issue, since no one is interested at the current time. HP-MPE is a fairly small niche, but this is vaguely fair VAX/VMS and Max/68K are obsolete machines, and clearly you will not find compilers for all obsolete machines. These are after all machines which were pretty much obsolete at the time that Ada 95 came into existence. Yes, we all know poor Larry has to play with VAX'es for ever, but this is hardly relevant to the general scene. And the 68K Mac is truly a dead dog at this stage, popular, I don't even think that is fair at this stage. Alpha NT is definitely an example of a machine that does have some small niche of usage, and lacks an Ada 95 compiler. It would in fact be easy to port GNAT to this target, and we even demonstrated this port three years ago, but there simply has been no interest. Again, I think the interesting thing here is that we are now at a stage where lack of compilers is not a significant factor in Ada 95 usage. Yes, there are some machines which still don't have Ada 95 support, but this reflects more of a lack of significant interest in Ada 95 on that target than anything else. Robert Dewar -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own