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: 103376,39e272d357c68416 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java? Date: 1999/12/11 Message-ID: <82s5qs$ocb$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 559131922 References: <11f733ec.57d88b68@usw-ex0107-042.remarq.com> <384127A5.61431A14@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> <0a0133f8.3baf10c0@usw-ex0101-001.remarq.com> <01a2e3cb.4316300b@usw-ex0101-005.remarq.com> <82638m$cif$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x38.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 170.1.222.94 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Dec 11 00:28:14 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-12-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <82638m$cif$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison wrote: > Averstar and ACT are newer, but that really just means that > their main corporate focus is still on their compilers. A peculiar statement :-) Averstar (Intermetrics) was the runner up in the competition to define Ada (see the many interesting ideas in the Red language). They were a major player in both the Ada market and in the validation effort early on. I will leave it to the Averstar people to comment on the claim that their main corporate focus is still on their compilers (that seems quite wrong to me). Ada Core Technologies, although new as a company, is hardly new to the Ada game. A central core of the company has been working on Ada since the early 80's (several of the people working for Ada Core Tecnologies were involved in the 1983 first Ada validation, and we have validation certificate number 001 hanging on the wall). Anyway, the issue is not so much whether a company is focussed on compilers, but rather whether they are focussed on Ada. At Ada Core Technologies, our attention is focussed more and more on tools, rather than the compiler itself, but still very much focussed on Ada. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.