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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cc7bad83fb245cb3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Binding a type to a union. Date: 1999/12/01 Message-ID: <821rvq$c2p$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 554993972 References: <81pum2$s1a$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x29.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Dec 01 01:00:43 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , "Vladimir Olensky" wrote: > This is the ABC of the Hi-Tech business that in order in > succeed in a long run a company should invest some part of > it's profits into research and development area (including > possible markets , technology areas, new products, new trends > that soon become a market demand etc.). > Even if (5-10)% of such investments would outcome in something > useful that is a little bit ahead of the time (and > competitors's > products ) then that investments would be much rewarded. Well of course! ACT invests FAR FAR more than 10% of its revenue (you don't really mean profits here, that's not the relevant figure at all!) in such research and development. It is a big leap however to conclude that we should necessarily spend thismoney in the way Vladimir thinks is a good idea :-) Generally we don't find comp.lang.ada to be the place to look for ideas on what the most important improvements to GNAT might be. Instead we look to our own resources, and to suggestions from customers whom we know and work with closely in this regard. As you know if you read the features file that comes with GNAT releases, we add many new features to each new release. Some of these ideas come from our own thoughts, some from suggestions made from customers, some from suggestions made (to report@gnat.com) from users of the public version. But few if any from CLA, we just don't find it as very useful sourceof ideas in practice! Sure, CLA is full of people who are ABSOLUTELY SURE that Ada will succeed if only XXX is done (you can fill in all kinds of things for XXX if you have been reading this newsgroup for long), and often these same people are ABSOLUTELY SURE that any company that does not implement XXX just doesn't understand -- oh well it is always easy to spend other people's money. Actually in the case of GNAT, if you are really really sure that XXX is the key factor to success, why not follow the idea yourself, make a version of GNAT or an add on to GNAT that implements XXX and do your thing :-) If you do have a specific suggestion, by all means submit it to Ada Core Technologies, by sending the suggestion in to report@gnat.com. The important thing is to be as specific as possible. Specific proposals are much more likely to be looked at carefully! Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.