Re: Gnat 2.06 Ada95 (unix) File format????

[ronald@ridgecrest.ca.us (Ronald Cole)]

In article <ROGOFF.96Jun15134546@sccm.Stanford.EDU> rogoff@sccm.Stanford.EDU (Brian Rogoff) writes:
   It is pretty easy to miss that point when it wasn't even in your original 
   post, which attacked GNAT, not Robert Dewar! I've appended it to this message 
   to remind you...

Thank you.  I was just restating a theme from a sample of Robert's
postings.  If you've been reading c.l.a posts for the past few months,
you will have personally seen Robert piss off a competent programmer
and then thoroughly chastize the guy who publishes the Ada CD-ROMs for
not publishing the latest and greatest version of GNAT (Robert's
assumption being that all previous releases are somehow unsuitable for
use: of course the current release will be a previous release in the
near future).

Personally, I think GNAT is the greatest thing since sliced bread.  I
also think that Robert is very sensitive about the quality of his
code.  Sometimes this sensitivity comes off as arrogance, other times
as disparagement.  Stallman has a similar personality quirk.  I
personally have a hard time getting along/working with this kind of
personality.  I quit contributing to the GNU project several years ago
because I got tired of banging my head against the "wall" (Ron
Guilmette and I worked out COFF support for g++ as early as version
1.32, but my name was eventually removed from the documentation).

My post was in exasperation at the sentiments expressed.

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