From: rogoff@sccm.Stanford.EDU (Brian Rogoff)
Subject: Re: Gnat 2.06 Ada95 (unix) File format????
Date: 1996/06/15
Date: 1996-06-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ROGOFF.96Jun15134546@sccm.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m24todol3x.fsf@devo.ridgecrest.ca.us
ronald@ridgecrest.ca.us (Ronald Cole) writes:
You missed the point. Robert can be a bull in a china shop. If
Robert would say, "We don't have the manpower to maintain old
releases, please download and try the lastest release" or ask the
bloke who releases the CDROMs to include a pointer to the latest
releases on the internet and let that be that, then a lot of people
wouldn't have ruffled feathers.
It is pretty easy to miss that point when it wasn't even in your original
post, which attacked GNAT, not Robert Dewar! I've appended it to this message
to remind you...
In any case, I really like GNAT, and would never have learned Ada if it
didn't exist. I have reported bugs and received prompt confirmation
(from R. Dewar no less!), and estimates of when the bug would be
fixed. All free! Gruff? Maybe. Effective? Definitely!
-- Brian
> I often wonder why people want to use GNAT at all for anything
> serious... After all, the current release will be an old, stale,
> dysfunctional piece of shit and completely disowned by Robert Dewar
> immediately after the next release! (or so he keeps telling the bloke
> who keeps producing the Ada CD-ROM set a version or two behind...)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-06-15 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-12 0:00 Gnat 2.06 Ada95 (unix) File format???? Mike Ibarra
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-15 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1996-06-22 0:00 ` George Tracey
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Free support for old Gnat versions (was: Gnat 2.06 Ada95 (unix) File format????) Ronald Cole
[not found] ` <31D1368D.167EB0E7@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Gnat 2.06 Ada95 (unix) File format???? Ronald Cole
1996-06-16 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-19 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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