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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEx1bmRpbg==?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada package registry? Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:07:54 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <02241ec4-0f95-4f63-9abc-092f167eb59e@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 21:05:02 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2482c96a50cd89a3b1bdf79fe0497387"; logging-data="27909"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18UaOBw3h6TaXbD6OGHGqoy" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.8.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mqt3NnS/MyLOejLirElOza/MOVY= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29466 Date: 2016-02-09T22:07:54+01:00 List-Id: On 2016-02-09 01:05, Randy Brukardt wrote: > > My vision of Ada is of a language in which to construct code that is > portable across implementations and across targets. To the extent that a > tool, no matter how well-intentioned, interfers with that, then it is > harmful to the future of Ada. GNAT /= Ada!! GNAT is not Ada, but speaking of the future, why bother putting out new Ada-revisions when there is only 1 implementation of Ada2012 and Ada05? (Or is ObjectAda an Ada05 compiler now ?) Writing libraries that HAVE to compile in Ada95 does not really encourage using all the new fine features. -- Björn