Re: Only one Ada vendor?

[Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net>]

Martin Krischik wrote:
>  Sloan.Kohler@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>Its Friday - thought I would try to stir things up...
>>
>>Several people have stated that "Ada" refers to the latest approved
>>version (i.e., Ada => "Ada 2005").  Its been well over a year since
>>AdaCore announced Ada 2005 support started shipping a pretty complete
>>implementation.  As far as I know, no other vendor has yet announced
>>any intention to support the current standard.  Maybe they're working
>>on it in secrecy. Maybe they are waiting on customer demand.  Maybe
>>they have already lost most of their customers to AdaCore and simply
>>don't care anymore.
> 
> 
> The funny thing is: The is only one C and C++ vendor which *fully* supports
> C 99 and C++ 2003. Perhaps full standart compliance is out of fashion :-( .

Definitely not the case for Fortran.  Standard compliance is very high 
on the list of vendors.  It does take a while for the changes to be 
rolled in though, more so when there are fairly massive changes to the 
standard.

> 
> Martin
> 


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