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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: ACT announces availability of GNAT 3.14p
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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! 

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-- Stephe