Re: [Q] GNAT Success stories?

[bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)]

In article <qw6iv1dhiv5.fsf@esmeralda.enst.fr>,
Samuel Tardieu  <sam@ada.eu.org> wrote:
>PS> I have an unsuccess story. I have developed an Ada-library for
>PS> education purposes under Meridian with nested generics,
>PS> heterogenous lists, etc.  In trying to compile it under GNAT I
>PS> received a lot of different kind of "internal errors", messages
>PS> from assembler and similar phenomena.  My next try led to Aonix'
>PS> Object Ada and I succeeded prompt.
>
>You don't even say what version of GNAT or ObjectAda you tried!

Both claim to be full Ada 95 compilers, in whatever version.
Why shouldn't he expect some Ada 83 code to work properly?

>Anyway, seeing how you configured your newsreader (your name and
>address don't even appear in the "From" line), one can safely guess
>that you misconfigured GNAT or even forgot to install the assembler :)

Hmm.  Seems like "blame the victim" to me.  Here's a guy who claims some
software is buggy.  And you don't believe him, because he doesn't know
how to configure his newsreader.  Well, I don't know how to configure my
newsreader, either (I just hope my internet provider does), but I feel
quite competent to point out bugs in GNAT, when they exist.

- Bob