Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers

[Martin <martin@thedowies.com>]

On Friday, May 18, 2012 7:27:42 AM UTC+1, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> On 05/17/2012 09:17 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> >
> > Our (RRS) current beta compiler supports a handful of Ada 2005, and the
> > complete Ada 2005 syntax. Not quite just Ada 95.
> 
> Thanks for the update. To my mind, that's an Ada-95 compiler with a non-standard 
> mode.
> 
> > Not sure if Irvine supports any Ada 2012, which is "current Ada" in my mind.
> 
> IIUC, we don't yet have a final, ISO-approved, published version of next Ada 
> yet, so to my mind it's not current Ada yet.
> 
> > The Rational compiler supports at least most of Ada 2005 (there was an
> > announcement to this effect a couple years ago). No idea about Ada 2012.
> 
> That's good to know.
> 
> So to recap, of 7 compilers, 3 implement the complete current standard (1 of 
> them also implements the draft standard for the next version). 5 years after 
> publication of the standard, that's not very encouraging.
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Carter
> Just as Khan was hindered by two-dimensional thinking in a
> three-dimensional situation, so many developers are hindered
> by sequential thinking in concurrent situations.
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If their customers aren't calling for it, it's a hard agrument to make for spending time (i.e. money) changing a product and potentially introducing new bugs that might break the existing compiler...

I'm always amazed that more compiler vendors don't offer a $0.00 or $49.99 or $99.99 'home' version though...

And I guess, I thought maybe 1 or 2 might have taken the jump to 'open source' their compilers...just to try and hook more people into using the language.

Even if they just released their Win32 version and not the more commercial PPC604/VxWorks targeting versions.

-- Martin