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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:29:25 -0400
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BrianG <briang000@gmail.com> writes:

> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> BrianG schrieb:
>>>  How many compilers support it?
>> Fewer than the total number of compilers (Ada 95 or Ada 2005)
>> available, TTBOMK.
>>
> Is it more than 1?  I don't remember hearing anything about other support.

Well, if you count each host/target pair as a compiler, there are quite a lot
of Ada compilers supporting the full Ada 2005 language.  All
of those are based on GNAT, as far as I know.  There are also
non-GNAT ones that have partial support.

- Bob