From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2f7ef46127892c41 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.231.2 with SMTP id tc2mr4890139pbc.8.1336154160373; Fri, 04 May 2012 10:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Path: pr3ni3855pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Manuel Gomez Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Little people supporting Ada, possibly through AdaCore? Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 19:55:59 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <12955589.960.1336138013614.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbfk16> NNTP-Posting-Host: gRCyfABzXoUeNlU9bpU15g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-05-04T19:55:59+02:00 List-Id: El 04/05/12 15:26, Patrick escribi�: > Two, In the event that AdaCore should fail, would it be wise to come > up with a back up plan? For instance, I know absolutely nothing about > GNAT internals and I suspect many others are in this boat. Would it > be good to try to form a non-profit group to studying the internals > of it, just in case there is no one around to support it later? If > this was the case, I propose it should be done in private as to not > weaken AdaCore's market share. In that event, I suppose the book "A Detailed Description of the GNU Ada Run-Time" (J. Miranda, 2002) would be a valuable, although a bit outdated, resource. http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda/