From: ichbiah@jdi.tiac.net (Jean D. Ichbiah)
Subject: Re: Ada means what version by default ?
Date: 1995/04/07
Date: 1995-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ichbiah.280.2F856EEB@jdi.tiac.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1995Apr6.072906.9591@eisner.decus.org
In article <1995Apr6.072906.9591@eisner.decus.org> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>Even if every vendor past and present were to instantaneously release an
>Ada 95 compiler, being the commercial money-grubbing capitalists that they
>are :-), they would probably charge for it. Not every user can afford to
>buy a new compiler[...]
The cost of the compiler is but the tip of the iceberg: if you are running
a project of a million line or so, you are likely to have baselined your
compiler and the cost of changing (and confronting 95 incompatibilities)
could very well be several order of magnitude higher than the
compiler costs.
>So there are lots of non-technical reasons to use Ada 83 for many years.
For example, the fact that a given target may be used for your project, have
a decent Ada compiler, but be insufficiently present on the market to entice
any vendor to supply a 95 compiler.
Jean D. Ichbiah
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-23 23:10 Why no exception hierarchy ? Mogens Jensen
1995-03-24 11:19 ` Michel Gauthier
1995-03-24 21:52 ` Tucker Taft
1995-03-25 1:50 ` Kenneth Almquist
1995-03-25 12:40 ` David Weller
1995-03-27 5:47 ` Kenneth Almquist
1995-03-25 16:03 ` Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software
1995-03-27 19:23 ` Kenneth Almquist
1995-03-28 16:56 ` Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software
1995-03-29 0:00 ` Kevin F. Quinn
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Kevin F. Quinn
1995-03-31 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
1995-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Garlington KE
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Versions of Ada (was Why no exception hierarchy ?) Larry Kilgallen
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Garlington KE
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Why no exception hierarchy ? Robert A Duff
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Garlington KE
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
[not found] ` <1995Apr4.210804.9579@eisner.decus.org>
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Ada means what version by default ? Kevin F. Quinn
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah [this message]
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Is "Ada" 95 or 83? (was: Re: Why no exception hierarchy ?) Theodore Dennison
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Ada means what version by default ? Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-25 18:13 ` Why no exception hierarchy ? Robert Dewar
1995-03-28 18:15 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1995-03-31 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1995-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
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