Re: Ada Dot Net ?

[Ingo Marks <adv@region-nord.de>]

Jerry van Dijk wrote:

> 
> "WJT" <bthomas@aisvt.bfg.com> writes:
> 
>> I know this is probably an old and sore subject but I have to ask. Does
>> anyone know if any of the Ada vendors (the few left) are developing an
>> Ada95 compiler for the MS Dot Net Environment?
> 
> Alas I do not know if such a beast is somewhere being thought about, but I
> agree Ada should jump on the .net (.gnu ?) bandwagon. Alas, looking at how
> the Java ports have been doing, it does not seem commercially interesting.
> 
> In theory, of course, a volunteer effort could do it, starting with GNAT
> (or even as a new gcc target). But last time I checked getting the info
> needed from MS involved signing a lot of contracts with them, and paying
> a handsome sum of serious money up front.

Expanding GNAT to .NET would be a very hard job. Wouldn't it be much easier 
to write an Ada to C# compiler? Of course that wouldn't the real meat, but 
better than nothing.

I have experience in writing compilers and I am thinking seriously about 
starting such an Ada/C# project. Is there anyone able and interested to 
support this? 

What do you think about?