Re: [Ada] implement many new Ada 2005 features

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <rYSdnVHyaq8IvIjfRVn-3w@megapath.net>, "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> "Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:VvZPd.21381$ya6.16171@trndny01...
> ...
>> Good news for Ada devotees, and it should give pause to one or two
>> overly ambitious n.g. members who are bent on writing their own Ada
>> compilers from scratch :-)
> 
> Well, some of us have our own Ada compilers (Janus/Ada in my case), and I
> certainly hope that you are not advocating the elimination of all other Ada
> technology. I can't think of anything more certain to kill Ada than to have
> only one source for compilers - that would mean that one size would have to
> fit all, and that is unlikely to be true.


Consider the case of Mumps/M where the number of vendors was so reduced
by vendors buying each other out that there is no longer an international
standard due to lack of vendor interest.