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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 09:40:38 -0400
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Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:

> On 05/17/2012 09:17 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>
>> Our (RRS) current beta compiler supports a handful of Ada 2005, and the
>> complete Ada 2005 syntax. Not quite just Ada 95.
>
> Thanks for the update. To my mind, that's an Ada-95 compiler with a
> non-standard mode.

Well, as far as ISO standards are concerned, there is only
one Ada, and that's what we call Ada 2005, so it doesn't make
sense to talk about "nonstandard modes" with respect to Ada 95.

>> Not sure if Irvine supports any Ada 2012, which is "current Ada" in my mind.
>
> IIUC, we don't yet have a final, ISO-approved, published version of next
> Ada yet, so to my mind it's not current Ada yet.

Right, Randy's mind is a few months ahead of ISO's mind.

>> The Rational compiler supports at least most of Ada 2005 (there was an
>> announcement to this effect a couple years ago). No idea about Ada 2012.
>
> That's good to know.
>
> So to recap, of 7 compilers, 3 implement the complete current standard
> (1 of them also implements the draft standard for the next version). 5
> years after publication of the standard, that's not very encouraging.

Why do you say so?  It's much better than the situation in the C world.

- Bob