Re: Ada Dot Net ?

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps-nospam.net>]

In <3CA87193.F6EEB08F@despammed.com>, Wes Groleau wrote:

> 
>> 2) GNU GCC 3.1 will integrate the former Ada frontend into its core.
>> See http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html:
> 
> What do they mean by "former" ? .....

I believe, in this context, they mean the "front end that was previously
a separate add-on product will be integrated into the compiler collection".

It's pretty clear from the gcc website that one shouldn't get there hopes
up too high about the quality of the Ada compiler that will ship with 3.1.
It's clearly not their highest priority (fixing their C++ ABI, again, seems
to be).  If I had to guess an order of importance, it'd be C, C++, Fortran,
Java, Objective C, Ada, Chill (maybe dead).  Might swap Java/Fortran...

One could hope that direct inclusion of Ada will increase interest in Ada
in the user community which will therefore spurn interest in the gcc
community.