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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e29c511c2b08561c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Date: 1996/06/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 160225255 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <4mq7mg$8hs@jake.probe.net> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4ppceg$gha@gde.GDEsystems.COM> Tom Robinson writes: > small when compared to Ada 83 I use it as the measure of how far > along the Ada 95 market is today. One measure of how successful Ada > 95 is will be how fast that list grows in the next 12 months as the > gnat and AdaMagic based compilers start hitting the market. I don't think this is a very good measure. I would guess (don't know for sure, but would be surprised otherwise) that well over half of all C (and C++) is done using only three compilers: MSC++, Borland C/C++ and Gnu C (with g++). It wouldn't surprise me if these accounted for three quarters of the code. Even at only half of all such code, that is a _very_ successful market. With only a couple three vendors. The real measure for how successful Ada95 is and will be, will be reflected in how many _customers_ ACT (including Digital and SGI), Thompson, Intermetrics, and OC Systems have and will get. Even if they just plain quit validating altogether. As for the goofy government, well, I don't see why they should be wigged out over using an unvalidated Ada compiler when they are perfectly willing to use MSC++. If "you're" (rhetorical you) going to waste time obtaining waivers, why not get a waiver for validation? /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com