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,e29c511c2b08561c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Date: 1996/06/22 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 162086607 references: <4mq7mg$8hs@jake.probe.net><4peu0v$rfq@news15.erols.com><1996Jun10.114827.26046@relay.nswc.navy.mil><4pk5sm$i7k@gde.GDEsystems.COM><31BEC408.2781E494@escmail.orl.mmc.com><4ppb89$gbq@gde.GDEsystems.COM> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle says " Meanwhile, real projects are being developed in Ada 95 using GNAT for the development, but which may be deployed using some entirely different compiler. This is one of the virtues of Ada." Certainly it is true that projects can be developed on one compiler and deployed on another. For example, we have several customers planning to develop using Rational Apex, and deploy using GNAT, and I would guess that all sorts of other combinations make sense in some environment or other. As to GNAT not being enough on its own, of course it isn't. No compiler is usable entirely on its own, but instead is used in conjunction with a suite of development tools suitable to the environment. What distinguishes GNAT from some other Ada systems is that since GNAT has a very standard compilation model and view of the world, it works fine with lost of standard tools, so you can pick and choose what tools you need. Some GNAT users use EMACS as an integrating environment for the compiler, GDB, RCS, GNATF and other tools that embed nicely into EMACS, others use SGI Workshop, others use other available tools (e.g. several of our users have found Purify and Gprof useful, both of which work with GNAT). >From a users point of view, it seems to me that the advantageous thing is to have as many choices as possible for both Ada compilers and Ada development tools! Robert Dewar ACT