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,a4ac379de0af89d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ohk@edeber.tfdt-o.nta.no (Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB) Subject: Re: ACT announces first 100% validations of Ada 95 compilers Date: 1997/03/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 223727496 References: Organization: Telenor Online Public Access Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: < Stuff deleted> 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 73 Fifth Ave, Suite 11B New York, NY 10003 +1 (212) 620-7300 (ext 117) sales@gnat.com Ole-Hj. Kristensen