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: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: dewar@gnat.com Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/15 Message-ID: <77map3$6u6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432731854 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369C4F71.72E62F8E@GoAway.com> <369CBBC5.5CBE@telusplanet.net> <369E0F70.FA815A62@spam.innocon.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x3.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: Fri Jan 15 02:56:40 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Herman wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Nobody need be scared of Ada. It is just Pascal by > another name, > > It has some significant improvements on Pascal, at least > as I used it for many years. > > usually used with an overpriced development system, > although the FSF has a perfectly good Ada95 compiler too > which can even run on a PC under DOS Just to clarify things here, GNAT is maintained by Ada Core Technologies. The original version of GNAT was created at New York University, under a contract that required NYU to assign the copyright to FSF, so the copyright for large parts of the GNAT technology is indeed held by the FSF, but other than this connection, FSF has nothing to do with GNAT. The DOS version which you refer to was originally created by a volunteer (Doug Rupp), and then for a while maintained by Ada Core Technologies, but is now maintained by an informal group of volunteers (for more information on the DOS version, send mail to Mike Feldman at mfeldman@cs.gwu.edu. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own