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,a3ca574fc2007430 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,f41f1f25333fa601 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry Date: 1996/12/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 204500953 references: <55ea3g$m1j@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3280DA96.15FB@hso.link.com> <1996Nov6.210957.3070@ole.cdac.com> <5683sk$bsc@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <586a40$tab@morse.satech.net.au> <32B19846.446B9B3D@escmail.orl.lmco.com> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime Date: 1996-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: T.E.D. said, reply to Bob Eachus > And incidently, one factor that may crop up as a real result of > this discussion is that there are a couple of "on-the-edge" chips > where the right government response to a waiver request could be to > fund a compiler port. It has happened several times in the past, and > may happen in the future. I'm not sure it will happen much in the future if the DoD is cutting back on their financial support of Ada, as has been suggested. One changed factor is that, using GNAT technology, the cost of a port is an order of magnitude less than it was with some of the Ada 83 technologies. This does not mean it is always worth doing a special port, but it does mean that it is more practical in more cases.