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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: An ada compiler for RTX ...
Date: 1999/05/07
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In article <7guj56$vu8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  sevestre@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> I would like to know if there is an ada compiler for the NT real-time
> layer RTX from VenturCom.

Unless something has changed since the last time that was asked a couple of
months ago, the answer is no.

By my count this is the third time in 5 months someone has asked that here. I
wonder how many times this has to get asked before vendors start feeling silly
when they respond that there's no demand for it...

The commercial side of the house here has a big investment in RTX, so this
became a major issue. We were within a hair's-breadth of finiancing a
conversion. The fact that our miliary customer required validation was
probably the final straw against it. But the commercial side of the house is
way more married to RTX than it is to any new language. They have a lot of
legacy Fortran code, so they did finance a Fortran compiler conversion. But
Fortran's runtime is much simpler than Ada's and they have verry little
legacy Ada code. So guess where that leaves Ada?

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