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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Required Metrics
Date: 2000/05/04
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In article <yLUP4.4522$wb7.450636@news.flash.net>,
  "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> wrote:

> I get a queasy feeling when it seems that the Ada vendor
> community may not be addressing requirements they don't like.

I think that's the wrong take entirely. In the case of metrics
(see Bob Duff's post), there is a broad feeling that these are
completely bogus requirements for modern compilers. If they
ever had any meaning it would only be for bare-board compilers
for very specific architectures.

It is not that the vendor "does not like" this particular
requirement in our case, it is simply that

a) it is meaningless, but we do meet the requirement anyway,
perhaps not in the most useful way, but since it is pretty
much useless, there is not much point in trying to do useless
things in a useful manner!

b) our customers have zero interest in us doing any more
than we do now.

As we often find, CLA readers and contributors seem to have
rather different priorities from actual Ada users when we get
to discussing various theoretical issues surrounding the RM :-)

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies


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