Re: ANN: Kickstarter for beginning work on a new open-source Compiler

[Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca>]

On 2014.03.18, 19:23 , Shark8 wrote:
> It is my belief that a new, non-GNAT, open-source [and free] Ada 2012 translator would be a good thing for both the Ada community and the general programming population -- this without even breaking from the traditional approaches. However, I think that a good, quality IDE/PSE could be quite advantageous; offering better project-management, documentation, verification, versioning, and correctness/consistency checking.
>
> The working-copy of the proposal is here:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwQVNNshW39cTXVOdWxQaVJ5WjA/edit?usp=sharing

0. Why is your exec summary so detailed?

1. Delphi?   Why not in Ada?

2. Your subject is "... a new open-source Compiler".  Your project is 
not so much about a compiler.

3. Text.  Nothing wrong with that.  You can ridicule it all you like 
with quotations, but it is the lowest common denominator.  Strawmen 
arguments like EOL and character sets is just distraction - such are 
easily fixed/translated if not handled automatically.

4. References to alleged poor design practices at Toyota are specious 
and irrelevant.  The Sony reference too.  (You're employing "scare" 
marketing.  Bzzzt.).

5. This whole project, to me, puts the programmer too far away from the 
source code.  Buries it.  That is not a good objective.

-- 
    ... it may be that "in the cloud" really isn't the best term
    for the services these companies offer.  What they really
    want is to have us "on the leash."
                   -David Pogue, Scientific American, 2014.02