On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Georg Bauhaus posted:

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|"anon schrieb:                                                             |
|> Most people want to know about Ada-2005 not Ada-95,"                     |
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Really?

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|" and the one and only                                                     |
|> vendor that supports the Ada-2005 is Adacore with GNAT.  The information |
|> that I gave was based on that vendor's system."                          |
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Is a genuine Ada 2005 compiler available from Ada Core Technologies?

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|"More on which compilers do support Ada 2005:                              |
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|"Most recently, Mr. Baird worked for IBM, which acquired Rational in       |
|2003. As Senior Software Engineer, he was responsible for adapting the     |
|Ada 95 “middle pass” portion of the Rational Ada compiler to implement     |
|the dynamic semantics of Ada 2005."                                        |
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|So IBM is also the only vendor supplying a compiler for Ada 2005  ;-)      |
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|(Quoted from AdaCore's press center announcing "the appointment of Ada     |
|expert Stephen Baird to the company’s GNAT Pro implementation team",       |
|2008-09-09.)"                                                              |
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I do not believe that an Ada 2005 compiler is available yet from IBM.

Samuel F Scheerens of International Business Machines sent by email on
July 2nd, 2008:
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|> Why do you still not sell an Ada 2005 compiler                     |
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|We are working on support for Ada 2005. Jim can give you details, but|
|you may have to sign some sort of non-disclosure agreement to get    |
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Jim of I.B.M. sent by email on July 3rd, 2008:
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|Ada 2005 will be available later this year. We have a working version|
|of the compiler, but not quite all of the container library. Our     |
|customers haven't been pushing for early release.                    |
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With kind regards,
Colin Paul Gloster