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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada package registry?
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"Pascal Obry" <pascal@obry.net> wrote in message 
news:1454568668.2996.15.camel@obry.net...

>> I would hardly call the Janus/Ada compiler and an ecosystem a "toy
>> project".
>
>In fact a compiler does not push the computing environment very far. A
>compiler is just a re-rewriter. It takes a set of bytes on entry and
>write a set of bytes as output.

Almost all programs can be described that way (taking a set of bytes in and 
writing a set out). And of course the ecosystem of an Ada implementation 
does a lot more than just "transforming bytes". Debugging and editing are 
very interactive, while build tools are rather data-intensive.

The real question is how much risk is one willing to take on, and in what 
parts of a project? Use of third-party things get things up quicker (which 
is good), but greatly increase the risk down the road. So all you're really 
saying is that you don't care about what happens down the road, which is a 
sad-but-true state of affairs in many areas of today's world.

                                   Randy.