Re: ez2load helping Ada

[root@mihalis.demon.co.uk (root)]

In article <dewar.837282705@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

   Just so my comments on Win95 are not taken wrong, I fully agree that the
   DOS port is extremely important for GNAT and Ada 95 right now, and
   the work on EZ2LOAD and its environment has been an important
   contribution. Just so people know, Mike is doing this work entirely
   on a volunteer basis (he had proposed this work under the educational
   compiler contract, but as you know this contract was awarded to
   Intermetrics). Mike managed to scrimp up the resources to bat on
   anyway with assembling the EZ2LOAD package, and it's remarkable what
   has been achieved with minimal resources.

I think we can all second that. I feel I unfortunately minimized the
fantastic technology underpinning the package (first of all GNAT, now
with tasking, secondly DJGPP making DOS usable). However I am glad
that we can all agree that the packaging effort itself is very
valuable. I've now got perhaps 25 colleagues using it or showing
interest to some degree and these are people working on the UK RN
Submarine Command System (SMCS), the UK RN Type 23 Frigate Command
System (SSCS) and our bid for the European Common Next Generation
Frigate (CNGF) - serious Ada users almost to a man (why pretend and say
person :-)

   The DJGPP folks seem to have done a remarkable job of making DOS
   look like a real operating system :-)

Well almost. It's about as convincing as Windows95.

Sorry couldn't resist. This is hitting the web via homebrew Linux (Company
account, my phone bill :)

Greetings to all!

Chris