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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53c5fea49e77990c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-01 19:33:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Eric G. Miller" Subject: Re: Ada Dot Net ? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <3CA87193.F6EEB08F@despammed.com> User-Agent: Pan/0.11.2 (Unix) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Comment-To: "Wes Groleau" Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 03:33:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.119.19.90 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1017718392 216.119.19.90 (Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:33:12 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:33:12 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21974 Date: 2002-04-02T03:33:12+00:00 List-Id: 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.