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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Ada front end technology
Date: 1997/07/05
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-07-05T00:00:00+00:00
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(other newsgroups trimmed, the original thread on is ADA as good for ...
is far too heavily cross-posted!)

Jon said

<<What this _really_ means is that a) finally someone somewhere produced                 
a truely reusable _and_ non-trivial "component" and b) finally some                      
others have woke up to the fact that "rolling your own" really sucks.                    
                                                                                         
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Jon is really confused on his history here. Intermetric's approach of                    
generating a front end that can be sold and used for rehostings is                       
hardly new. DDCI, Alsys, and Verdix were all in this business, as well                   
as other vendors with considerable success. For example, Alsys sold its                  
front end to Unisys and to HP. Many other such deals were concluded.                     
It is nice to see Intermetrics continue this tradition, but it is not                    
a new invention that someone "finally somewhere produced". Many of the                   
Ada 83 technologies were designed to be portable in this sense, and                      
the fact that they succeeded is seen in the many Ada 83 products that                    
used third party front ends.