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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53c5fea49e77990c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-02 10:35:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Dot Net ? Date: 02 Apr 2002 13:18:50 -0500 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (skates.gsfc.nasa.gov) Message-ID: References: <3CA87193.F6EEB08F@despammed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1017771856 18871 128.183.220.71 (2 Apr 2002 18:24:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Apr 2002 18:24:16 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22011 Date: 2002-04-02T18:24:16+00:00 List-Id: "Eric G. Miller" writes: > It's pretty clear from the gcc website that one shouldn't get there hopes > up too high about the quality of the Ada compiler that will ship with 3.1. > It's clearly not their highest priority (fixing their C++ ABI, again, seems > to be). If I had to guess an order of importance, it'd be C, C++, Fortran, > Java, Objective C, Ada, Chill (maybe dead). Might swap Java/Fortran... "Importance of integrating" does _not_ equate with "quality"! gcc Ada is a _very_ high quality compiler. The GNAT compiler has an extensive test suite. It's mostly proprietary, consisting of ACT customer code sent in over the years as bug reports. So it doesn't show up in the gcc tree. But the gcc tree code is run against the test suite by ACT. > One could hope that direct inclusion of Ada will increase interest > in Ada in the user community which will therefore spurn interest in Perhaps you meant "spur", not "spurn"? One of those nasty little single-letter typos :). > the gcc community. -- -- Stephe