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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7394239292cca97d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-06 20:14:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is JGNAT production ready?... Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 04:00:26 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <938pkm$p49$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <3a53bed0_3@news3.prserv.net> <3a57c6a8_2@news3.prserv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Jan 07 04:00:26 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x53.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3736 Date: 2001-01-07T04:00:26+00:00 List-Id: In article <3a57c6a8_2@news3.prserv.net>, "Andrzej Lewandowski" wrote: > Well, if both JGNATs are the same, what "support" means? They > will be teachning me Ada?... Helping people to understand some of the more difficult parts of the Ada language as it relates to their applications is indeed one part of the support services we provide (examples are elaboration semantics and representation clauses, which seem to cause particular difficulties in porting legacy code). But that's only a very small part of our support services. If you are interested in finding out more, feel free to visit our web site, or correspond directly with our sales department. If your application is non-critical, and you are comfortable using unsupported software, then the public version may be suitable for your use, but you seemed to imply that this was a mission critical project, in which case our advice (which we certainly follow ourselves) is to use supported software wherever possible. The support services that we provide can reduce risks and costs in a wide range of critical projects using Ada. We can also guarantee that you are working with the correct version of the system and also provide and guarantee the appropriate licensing information (that's not to say that there are necessarily any problems in these regards with the particular copy of the public version that you have, but we cannot guarantee anything about the public version, since it may not even be the same version we provided -- the open source software arena encourages people to improve, repackage etc and this has happened with various versions of GNAT in the past). Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/