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: 103376,865386f3ea1dd9f0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!12.120.4.37!attcg2!ip.att.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [Ada] implement many new Ada 2005 features Date: 17 Feb 2005 23:27:24 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1108704366 6757 192.135.80.34 (18 Feb 2005 05:26:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 05:26:06 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8408 Date: 2005-02-17T23:27:24-06:00 List-Id: In article , "Randy Brukardt" writes: > "Hyman Rosen" 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.