Re: Assembler in Ada?

["news.oxy.com" <Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com>]

Samuel Tardieu wrote in message <87btjku7qq.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr>...
>Vladimir> The other approach is to make several links from your
>Vladimir> site. Not only for students to get access to public version
>Vladimir> of GNAT but also for more advanced users so that they could
>Vladimir> spend less time finding specific information and Ada tools
>Vladimir> that they may need (as a matter of fact you already have
>Vladimir> links to a variety of Ada tools).  Anyway it is ACT decision
>Vladimir> how to address that issues.
>
>Why ACT decision? If you feel that some collections of links would be
>useful, why don't you setup one yourself and publicize the address? It
>will not take you more time than writing posts saying "We need it".


I can not do this simply because I am corporate Intranet user and our
Company Intranet is protected by the firewall from external world. So it is
closed for access from Internet. Only Company WEB Server is accessible
(www.oxy.com) that contain general Company info.
I think that almost all companies protect themselves in such way.

Just posting such kind of info does not make any sense. It will be once
read, and then you will never find it again (little exaggeration of course
but close to reality).  As a matter of fact I sent some useful links to
people that needed help (just look at the thread "double linked lists).
Another one was to the Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE) created by
Douglas C. Schmidt which is Associate Professor and Director of the Center
for Distributed Object Computing in the Department of Computer Science in
Washington University in Saint Louis
(http://siesta.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html) . I would like see it to be
implemented in  Ada 95. There is need of some kind of ready to use universal
communication components.

The other thing comes to my mind also. Just imagine that Microsoft would
react the same way for [potential] users needs. Would it have such success?
Would it help to promote Microsoft products? Just look at the Microsoft WEB
. You will find links to huge amount of free, shareware and commercial
software written for MS-Windows. This is extremely convenient. They know
what they are doing and why.


Regards,

Vladimir Olensky
(vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com)
(Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com)
Telecommunication specialist,
Occidental C.I.S. Service, Inc. ( www.oxy.com )
Moscow,
Russia.