Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 05/17/2012 09:17 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> Our (RRS) current beta compiler supports a handful of Ada 2005, and the
> complete Ada 2005 syntax. Not quite just Ada 95.

Thanks for the update. To my mind, that's an Ada-95 compiler with a non-standard 
mode.

> Not sure if Irvine supports any Ada 2012, which is "current Ada" in my mind.

IIUC, we don't yet have a final, ISO-approved, published version of next Ada 
yet, so to my mind it's not current Ada yet.

> The Rational compiler supports at least most of Ada 2005 (there was an
> announcement to this effect a couple years ago). No idea about Ada 2012.

That's good to know.

So to recap, of 7 compilers, 3 implement the complete current standard (1 of 
them also implements the draft standard for the next version). 5 years after 
publication of the standard, that's not very encouraging.

-- 
Jeff Carter
Just as Khan was hindered by two-dimensional thinking in a
three-dimensional situation, so many developers are hindered
by sequential thinking in concurrent situations.
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