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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,24ac770ebf312b7a
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail
From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Next Ada compiler for Debian: the votes so far
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:41:42 +0100
Organization: Pushface
Message-ID: <m2ek7g3n61.fsf@grendel.local>
References: <87u0gjd8kj.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org>
 <87zmq7zi2g.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org>
 <pan.2005.09.21.00.08.31.429605@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk>
 <1127373639.533145.315510@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
 <1127389845.587230.25850@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
 <pan.2005.09.22.16.53.52.628023@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1127418099 22084 62.49.19.209 (22 Sep 2005 19:41:39
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:41:39 +0000 (UTC)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:t+sAvd+uON7bbM/pgV9daFAlIXY=
User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin)
Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5047
Date: 2005-09-22T20:41:42+01:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

"Dr. Adrian Wrigley" <amtw@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk> writes:

> The problem is that this will no longer compile "Ada" next year,
> since "Ada" will mean the new standard.  GNAT 3.15p will become
> about as useful as a free Fortan 66 compiler.

It is reasonably unlikely that my work project will upgrade to an 05
compiler. For a start, it would only cause us grief, since the product
is being developed in Ada95; as an example, we have loads of packages
named <something>.Interface!