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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: ACT announces availability of GNAT 3.14p
Date: 04 Feb 2002 11:07:39 -0500
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Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> Leon Winslow <leon.winslow@eliminatespam.notes.udayton.edu> writes:
> 
> > I can understand the reason for limiting ACTs work to Windows NT, but
> > this is also one of the  reason that Ada is "sliding into oblivion."
> > The majority of the programming is being done on Windows platforms other
> > than NT and 2K.  (MS has already announced dates for dropping all suport
> > of these two platforms.).  A compiler that works "reasonably well" in
> > W98, XP or Me is never going to be used on those platforms for any
> > serious work.
> 
> But the reason GNAT only works "reasonably well" on those platforms is
> that they are only "reasonably good" platforms! I would never use them
> for "serious work". I have Win 95 at home, because it runs games well,
> which is the major use of the computer. I keep hoping that a Windows
> NT variant will appear that also runs games well; that is what we
> need! 

Apparently I have missed the MS marketing hype about XP. It seems to
be derived from NT, which is good. Does it also run games well (Myst
III, in particular)?

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-- Stephe