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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-07 13:18:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!central.cox.net!east.cox.net!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!bigfeed.bellsouth.net!bignumb.bellsouth.net!news.bellsouth.net!bignews5.bellsouth.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "David C. Hoos" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3F5B8084.5080705@attbi.com> Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 15:17:42 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.159.150.138 X-Trace: bignews5.bellsouth.net 1062965793 68.159.150.138 (Sun, 07 Sep 2003 16:16:33 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 16:16:33 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42245 Date: 2003-09-07T15:17:42-05:00 List-Id: "Robert I. Eachus" wrote in message news:3F5B8084.5080705@attbi.com... > Could someone provide a .NET enabled compiler for Ada? Sure. Will > anyone do so? I don't think so. Dr. Martin Carlisle and company at the Air Force Academy have already done so. http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/a_sharp.html > As long as .NET is seen as a Microsoft > Windows only environment, the only advantage to having an Ada .NET > compiler is to run the same executables on x86 and IA-64 hardware. Work has been underway for some time on more than one implementation of the .NET framework and the CLR for (NIX environments -- e.g. http://www.go-mono.com/