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: 103376,998480123ade4649 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.39.100 with SMTP id o4mr601161pbk.0.1321913276041; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:07:56 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni2964pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: will ada always be supported by gcc? Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:07:55 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1321913275 7843 192.74.137.71 (21 Nov 2011 22:07:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:07:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jQrSkRjydiV4wrRvMl6e6S2bIWo= Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 2011-11-21T17:07:55-05:00 List-Id: leo.brewin@internode.on.net writes: > I've been a long time user of Pascal and I'm worried that my compiler > of choice, gpc pascal for MacOSX, may fall over in the next release of > MacOSX. The good folks that have supported gpc Pascal over the years > are unlikely to do the job on an ongoing basis. So I need a plan B > which currently is to port my roughly 1 million lines of code to Ada. If you have a million lines of Pascal, I suspect it would be cheaper to maintain the Pascal compiler yourself, or pay somebody to do so, rather than converting it all to Ada. Converting a large well-working program from one language to another is rarely a good idea. > My worry is that I might run into the same problem with Ada -- can I > be sure that Ada will continue to be part of the GCC compiler suite > for a long time? Yes, I think GNAT will continue to exist for a long time. I hope so, since I make a living maintaining GNAT and other AdaCore products. To answer your subject line, "will ada always be supported by gcc?": I hope not ALWAYS. ;-) Surely 100 years from now, people will be using much better programming languages than the ones we have now, including Ada! - Bob