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,d875f8fc1f73cf09 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-02 16:29:56 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Compiling AFLEX 1.4a with Dec Ada 83 3.5-20 on Open VMS 7.1 Message-ID: References: <9bsm5c$khe$1@uranium.btinternet.com> <9c1avq$mr9$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3AF000FC.2E00D5F0@NOSPAMcompaq.com> <9cp2to$gkf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9cpd6o$kgg$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9cq06u$qmp$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Organization: LJK Software Date: 2 May 2001 19:29:52 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 988846195 216.44.122.34 (Wed, 02 May 2001 23:29:55 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 23:29:55 GMT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7110 Date: 2001-05-02T19:29:52-05:00 List-Id: In article <9cq06u$qmp$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" 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. ============================================================================== Great Inventors of our time: Al Gore -> Internet; Sun Microsystems -> Clusters ==============================================================================