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-Thread: 103376,24ac770ebf312b7a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe1-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: Next Ada compiler for Debian: the votes so far User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <87u0gjd8kj.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87zmq7zi2g.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <1127373639.533145.315510@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1127389845.587230.25850@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:54:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.4.127.115 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe1-gui.ntli.net 1127408075 80.4.127.115 (Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:54:35 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:54:35 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5037 Date: 2005-09-22T16:54:35+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:50:45 -0700, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > The creation of commercial applications is not closed off; anyone is > still free to use GCC or GNAT 3.15p. The additional convenience has > just not been provided to those who want to do proprietary software. The problem is that this will no longer compile "Ada" next year, since "Ada" will mean the new standard. GNAT 3.15p will become about as useful as a free Fortan 66 compiler. (and the situation is worse with things like GLADE, and GtkAda, the GMGPL versions of which will become obsolescent) -- Adrian