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: 2002-04-02 20:22:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!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: "Stephen Leake" Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 04:22:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.119.44.24 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1017807742 216.119.44.24 (Tue, 02 Apr 2002 20:22:22 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 20:22:22 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22031 Date: 2002-04-03T04:22:22+00:00 List-Id: In , Stephen Leake wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" writes: > >> 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... > > "Importance of integrating" does _not_ equate with "quality"! gcc Ada > is a _very_ high quality compiler. Well, then maybe the website needs to be fixed. As I read it, the implication is that the GCC community is willing to accept a higher number of defects and/or suboptimal code generation compared with C or C++. If they really mean the depth of integration with the rest of the compiler, the website should say so. Anyway, good to hear the compiler works well -- supposed to be released in a couple of weeks, no? > The GNAT compiler has an extensive test suite. It's mostly > proprietary, consisting of ACT customer code sent in over the years as > bug reports. So it doesn't show up in the gcc tree. But the gcc tree > code is run against the test suite by ACT. Will some kind of results be published with the release? >> One could hope that direct inclusion of Ada will increase interest >> in Ada in the user community which will therefore spurn interest in > > Perhaps you meant "spur", not "spurn"? One of those nasty little > single-letter typos :). Yes, "generate" interest not "reject". >> the gcc community. >