Re: ACT announces first 100% validations of Ada 95 compilers

[ohk@edeber.tfdt-o.nta.no (Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB)]

In article <dewar.857653821@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

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Congratulations!

   GNAT is also the only Ada 95 capability that supports the Distributed
   Systems Annex of the Ada 95 standard. For the first time, this provides
   distribution capability integrated into a general-purpose language,
   making Ada 95, as implemented by GNAT, an attractive candidate for
   generating distributed applications, including client-server systems.

Ada 95 is certainly not the first general-purpose language which comes
with a standard distribution capability. Chill, Modula-3 and Occam (2)
are other examples.

How attractive a language is for implementing client-server systems
also depend on other factors than just having distribution built in.

1. Can a client call a server compiled with another compiler?
2. Can it be used in a network of heterogeneous computers?
3. Does the mechanism require that both clients and servers must be
programmed in Ada95?

And I'm not talking of what would be theoretically possible here, but
about what is actually practical to do within a project.

If you consider those factors unimportant, consider for a moment why
the telecommunications community have been so (obsessively) concerned
about protocol standards.
Of course, within an embedded or very tightly coupled system, these
factors may not be important.

   GNAT is used by a large community of Ada 95 programmers throughout
   the world, and has been used for major Ada 95 applications in both
   commercial and government applications.

   Ada Core Technologies can offer high-quality support for these and
   many other versions of GNAT. For information on obtaining these
   validated compilers, please contact Ada Core Technologies.

     Ada Core Technologies
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Ole-Hj. Kristensen