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Subject: Re: I am leaving Ada :-( because of GNAT bugs
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On 12/13/2017 08:37 PM, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>> Luke A. Guest wrote:
> 
>>> I really wish you people would stop with the lie that there are many
>>> compilers when there are many versions of the same compiler.
>>
>> * AdaCore
>> * DDC-I
>> * Greenhills S/W
>> * Irvine
>> * PTC
>> * RR S/W
>>
>> I'm surprised to learn they all offer versions of the same compiler.
> 
> Given the convention I've learned, only AdaCore and FSF provide an "Ada
> compiler" (and basically the same one).  The other companies provide
> "Ada XXXX compilers".

If you want to pick nits, Guest said "compiler", not "Ada compiler".

-- 
Jeff Carter
"It has been my great privilege, many years ago,
whilst traveling through the mountains of Paraguay,
to find the Yack'Wee Indians drinking the juice of
the cacti."
The Old Fashioned Way
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