Ada95 Compilers (was Re: C++ Productivity)

[milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo)]

jcm@hgc.edu (James McKim) writes:
>In article <794827687snz@moorside.demon.co.uk> Alan@moorside.demon.co.uk writes:
>>Is Eiffel widely used? (I don't dispute that it is widely respected).

>Widely used is too strong. It is slowly gaining a following worldwide and
>in fact is probably more heavily used in Europe and Australia than
>in the US. To get a feeling for Eiffel's market penetration take a look
>at the book Object Oriented Applications, edited by Meyer and Nerson,
>published by Prentice Hall. It presents a batch of case studies of real world
>projects completed using Eiffel.  

>>One doesn't hear of much Ada use outside military/US government circles
>>(which, though large, are specialised and to some degree self-contained
>>markets).

>That's my impression as well. Also I have no idea how many Ada95 compilers
>are available at this point.

AFAIK (and I cross-posted to comp.lang.ada to make sure someone would
correct me), the answer is "almost one."  This implementation is the
GNAT (GNu Ada Translator) compiler which supports most, but not quite
all of the Ada95 language.

But the price is right!  (Especially for an Ada compiler!)
-- 
    ciao,
    milo
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