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-Thread: 103376,865386f3ea1dd9f0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [Ada] implement many new Ada 2005 features References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:13:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.23.20 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1108559597 209.165.23.20 (Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:13:17 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:13:17 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8350 Date: 2005-02-16T13:13:17+00:00 List-Id: I agree that with all the work that has gone into Gnat/gcc that one would have a hard time catching up. That's why I said if one wished to take over the market dominance owned by Gnat, et alia, one would need to be really well financed and truly have some better idea. But would you suggest that college level compiler classes not assign their students to go write a compiler? Probably not. Hence there is a reason someone might want to do so. "I want to learn about compilers and try out some interesting theories I have..." is a good reason to go write one. Taking over the market from "Coca Cola" would probably be a bad objective because of the cost & difficulty of actually succeeding. But then, Ada itself keeps tilting at that windmill so should we really be surprised? MDC Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Not really. After man-decades of effort, there are still little > corner cases in GNAT that need fixing up. Someone starting over > from scratch is going to lose the benefit of all that experience > and will have to rediscover all those little problems himself. > > That's why the temptation to rewrite a system is so pernicious. > A lot of the knowledge lives in the code, and isn't documented > anywhere else. Because of that, the rewriters begin with the > thought that the new system will be cleaner and nicer than the > old one. It's only later when the new system doesn't work that > they discover all the things that the old system can do and the > new one can't. -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "'Shut up,' he explained." -- Ring Lardner ======================================================================