From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:27:38 GMT
Date: 2004-09-12T01:27:38+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eCN0d.174993$Fg5.10119@attbi_s53> (raw)
In-Reply-To: xd6dndUfkoCTtt7cRVn-hA@gbronline.com
>> What if, say Microsoft were to design and implement thick Win32
>> bindings for functions that are not standardized in Ada? Some
>> examples: Win32 GUI or serial IO.
>Probably good, unless it was an attempt (and a successful
>one) to eliminate open source bindings and therefore
>other products using open source bindings.
If MS did that and advertised it, then 99.9% of people would
know of the MS bindings. The existing (source available) bindings
like Claw, GWindows, etc would remain known to the 0.1% of people
who know of them now. The end result seems obvious.
>Even if Microsoft's compiler is fully validated (and I wouldn't
>take _their_ word for it for a second), it could still contain
>extensions (for example, GNAT has 'Img) that no other compiler has
Gnat's an interesting example. It's advertised as an Ada compiler, but
with the default compilation options, it isn't. And my observation is
that a very large fraction of Open Source Ada code is in fact written so
it depends on specific characteristics of Gnat.
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2004-09-11 10:53 Microsoft & Ada Andrew Carroll
2004-09-11 11:49 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-09-12 7:56 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-13 3:10 ` Adrian Hoe
2004-09-13 16:45 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-11 12:02 ` stephane richard
2004-09-11 12:26 ` Brian May
2004-09-11 12:43 ` stephane richard
2004-09-11 16:42 ` Wes Groleau
2004-09-12 1:27 ` tmoran [this message]
2004-09-12 8:01 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-12 22:04 ` Wes Groleau
2004-09-13 3:14 ` Adrian Hoe
2004-09-11 21:05 ` Björn Persson
2004-09-11 23:11 ` stephane richard
2004-09-12 3:12 ` Jeffrey Carter
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2004-09-13 4:39 Robert C. Leif
2004-09-14 2:19 ` Adrian Hoe
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2004-09-09 7:20 ` Andrew Carroll
[not found] <20040907010534.A306B4C40C2@lovelace.ada-france.org>
2004-09-07 6:31 ` Andrew Carroll
2004-09-08 12:15 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-08 17:22 ` stephane richard
2004-09-08 21:57 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-09-13 3:07 ` Adrian Hoe
2004-09-13 3:05 ` Adrian Hoe
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1998-05-04 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1998-05-09 0:00 ` Mark D McKinneyq
1998-05-04 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1998-05-05 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-05-11 0:00 ` Daren Scot Wilson
1998-05-11 0:00 ` Dirk Craeynest
1998-05-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-05-11 0:00 ` david.c.hoos.sr
1998-05-14 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-05-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-06 0:00 ` Sergey Makarenko
1998-05-06 0:00 ` Adrian BY, Hoe
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