Re: Compiling AFLEX 1.4a with Dec Ada 83 3.5-20 on Open VMS 7.1

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <9cq06u$qmp$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:
> Yes. That was basically my impression. DEC/Ada83 vs Gnat/Ada95. I don't
> remember if DEC was in the business of directly selling a Gnat distribution
> with/without any specific support - but I do remember their sales weenies
> indicating that this was the upgrade path from Ada83. I basically got the
> public distribution and had our IT dude install it & it worked fine.
> 
> When DEC was assimilated I figured Compaq would continue support for
> whatever DEC did while migrating towards other products, until the last
> vestiges of DEC withered away and were consigned to the dustbin of history.
> I figured that the Ada83 compiler would go along for the ride.

Remember those stories about long-lived Ada projects ?
Some of them don't want to switch compilers 1/4 of the
way through their life-cycle.

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