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From: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Only one Ada vendor?
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Hello;

<Sloan.Kohler@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1192806306.892546.73350@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Its Friday - thought I would try to stir things up...
>
....
>Since IBM took over it seems that Apex product development has completely 
>stagnated while they focus on collecting license maintenance >fees from 
>legacy customers who are in too deep to switch compilers.

But one of the whole marks of Ada is that it is so much a standardized 
language that one could compile Ada code with any conforming Ada compiler 
and this should never cause a problem?

If this was say C or C++ code full of #ifdefs and each C compiler having its 
own set of a million different compiler switches I would understand, but Ada 
code?  So I am just curious why would it be hard to "switch" Ada compilers?

Nasser