Re: logarithms on ada

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

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John McCabe says

<<Seems to be some subtlety here on what is and isn't a project. My
comments have tended to restrict a project to something that starts,
goes on to produce a specific piece of equipment, then ends -
basically a bespoke software / hardware item whereas you seem to be
considering more of a product based thing.>>

  Hmm! I am talking about typical large scale DoD projects that certainly
  start, certainly go on to produce a specific piece of equipment, but
  that do not seem so easily to end! They tend to get maintained and
  upgraded, and in some cases, moving the software to Ada 95 is a natural
  part of this ongoing maintenance and upgrading.

  Obviously a project of the type you are discussing will not change
  compilers in midstream, they very likely will not even change versions
  of the compiler, let alone chnage versions of the language.

Ok, so I've also got a copy of GNAT 3.03 and 3.04 for DOS, and 2.07
for Sun Sparc that I don't use :-)

  Well don't worry, you are not in our database anyway. very likely
  you got your version from other than one of the FTP sites for which
  we maintain data (and indeed there are MANY people who get GNAT from
  other than our monitored FTP sites, including large numbers of students
  who get it from their local academic environment).