Re: [Ada] implement many new Ada 2005 features

["Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net>]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:00:16 -0600, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com>  
wrote:

> Well, some of us have our own Ada compilers (Janus/Ada in my case), and I
> certainly hope that you are not advocating the elimination of all other  
> Ada
> technology. I can't think of anything more certain to kill Ada than to  
> have
> only one source for compilers - that would mean that one size would have  
> to
> fit all, and that is unlikely to be true.
>
> Certainly, Janus/Ada is not going to compete in every environment with  
> GNAT
> (it's certainly not suitable for hard real-time work, for instance), but  
> it
> keeps alive techniques that have disappeared elsewhere: real generic code
> sharing, discontiguous objects (no allocate-the-max bs here), and so on.
>
> I wouldn't suggest that anyone start from scratch, though, because I've
> spent about 17 years of my life working on Janus/Ada (along with a  
> number of
> other people), and that sort of investment is not something to undertake  
> for
> most humans. And a compiler for the "easy" subset of Ada is unlikely to  
> be
> interesting.
>
>                             Randy Brukardt

Hear! Hear!

- Ed