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From: Karl Stromberg <karlps@blander.no>
Subject: Re: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ?
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 09:59:51 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2014-11-09T09:59:51+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ndun$e7t$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cGG7w.59818$O76.15140@fx15.iad

On 2014-11-09, HerrDoktor <herrdoktor@fumanchu.com> wrote:
>>
>> There is active projects for Modula 2 and Modula 3. Did you want Modula 2
>> or just something like Modula 2?
>
> Actually more something like Modula 2 but I know of course that the 
> compiler development for Modula 2 is dead.

No. Compiler development for Modula 2 is not dead. As I say there is active
projects for this including gnu Modula 2. See gm2.org. And you can look to
Modula 3 for active development too. http://www.modula3.org/

If you mean language development for Modula 2 is dead I'm also not sure of
it. I saw some projects expanding the language.

> I guess I am wha'ts called these days an Indy game developer and I need
> something that is reliable for the foreseeable future and I can't afford
> to throw my lot in with something like Modula 2. Ada is the only viable
> alternative to my knowledge. Plus I really like the built in multitasking
> feature.

Ada market today is essentially owned by one player. If Adacore will stop passing
their work to gcc developers there is no more free in beer Ada compiler.

There is no way to guarantee what is reliable for the future unless you
control all of it. gcc or Adacore can make license term changes unacceptable
for you. They can stop developing. Nothing is assured. Even if you pay they
can always go out of business. It happened before.

Karl Peter

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-09  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-06 22:42 Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ? Simon Clubley
2014-10-06 23:18 ` brbarkstrom
2014-10-07  8:10 ` Gour
2014-10-07 10:49   ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-08  7:23     ` Gour
2014-10-08  8:35       ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-08  9:15         ` Simon Wright
2014-10-08 19:14           ` -fdump-ada-spec (was: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ?) Ludovic Brenta
2014-10-08 19:48             ` -fdump-ada-spec Simon Wright
2014-10-08  9:17         ` Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ? Gour
2014-10-08 11:23       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-10  9:18         ` Gour
2014-10-08 13:33       ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-07 20:06 ` Stribor40
2014-10-07 20:21   ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-10-07 21:28     ` David Botton
2014-10-09  5:57       ` Dirk Craeynest
2014-10-10  0:58     ` rriehle
2014-10-08  7:08   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-09 11:58 ` Mark Carroll
2014-10-09 13:31   ` Simon Wright
2014-10-09 18:04     ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-09 20:02       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-09 18:35     ` Mark Carroll
2014-10-09 21:08       ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-10  7:28         ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-10  9:07           ` Mark Carroll
2014-10-10  9:33             ` Björn Lundin
2014-10-10 11:41               ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-10 13:35                 ` Björn Lundin
2014-10-10 17:10                   ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-10 18:22                     ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-10 14:51                 ` Lucretia
2014-10-10 14:28           ` Lucretia
2014-10-10 19:47           ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-10 21:38             ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-12 10:56               ` Cross-toolchain for DS [was: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ?] Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-12 11:40                 ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-12 12:27                   ` Peter Chapin
2014-10-12 19:42                     ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-12 13:25                 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-12 13:52                   ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-12 14:40                     ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-12 20:09                     ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-19 14:34                       ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-19 15:48                         ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-23  8:22                           ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-12 23:18                     ` Lucretia
2014-10-15  9:46                       ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-15 16:50                         ` Lucretia
2014-10-15  9:58                 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-15 10:32                   ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-16 12:04                     ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-11 10:53             ` Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ? Brian Drummond
2014-10-12  1:33         ` David Botton
2014-10-12  1:25       ` David Botton
2014-10-12 14:40         ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-09 19:06   ` Shark8
2014-11-04 16:28   ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2014-11-04 16:45     ` Barry Danforth
2014-11-04 17:18       ` David Botton
2014-10-09 12:50 ` john
2014-10-09 21:08 ` gdotone
2014-10-10 16:25 ` Stribor40
2014-10-10 17:09   ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-10 17:59     ` Stribor40
2014-10-10 18:22       ` Luke A. Guest
2014-11-08 23:51 ` HerrDoktor
2014-11-09  7:44   ` Karl Stromberg
2014-11-09  9:28     ` HerrDoktor
2014-11-09  9:42     ` HerrDoktor
2014-11-09  9:59       ` Karl Stromberg [this message]
2014-11-09 10:25         ` HerrDoktor
2014-11-09 16:31           ` David Botton
2014-11-09 16:29         ` David Botton
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