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Current status of Ada?

April 26, 2017ADA Status

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Current status of Ada?

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… learning and using this great language. … The reason why compilers maker can’t make their compiler totally free … I agree with you that most of the links you can find on Ada websites … AdaCore has contributed a free gnat compiler to … (comp.lang.

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“Ed Falis” wrote in message news:PM000438DC8E87815A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Which does not contradict my statement in the context of the times. Despite the superficially “fair” wording of the memo, it was almost universally interpreted as DoD walking away from Ada. One of my colleagues was at a meeting recently where some yoyo got up and said “Thank God we got rid of Ada”! Probably because that was the “cool” view among those who felt oppressed by the mandate (largely in terms of their short-term profit margins). – Ed I published an article in Crosstalk several years ago that attempted to clarify Mr. Paige’s intent. I even sent him a draft of the article for his approval before publishing it. He agreed with my assessment and the content of the article. His original hope was that, having been proven successful in a lot of DoD projects, Ada would stand on its own and be chosen without the coercion of a DoD mandate. It has been suggested by some that there was a lot of “

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adaworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: “Harald Korneliussen” wrote in message news:1187850312.375316.57440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Aug 22, 2:53 am, “Jeffrey R. Carter” wrote: And some projects using Ada commercially consider it a competitive advantage and keep it secret. Are you sure? It seems to me it’s in the companies’ best interests to say whether they are using Ada, since Ada developers are tricky to get hold of. Keeping it secret seems to me both difficult (what do you write in the job ads?) and counterproductive. I once had a commercial client that required a non-disclosure agreement about their use of Ada because of competitive reasons. In their view, their competitors would use this fact against them as a sales gimmick. The fear was that the competitors would ridicule them for “using a language that was not part of the mainstream and had been rejected by the Department of Defense.” Note that, when Emmett Paige wrote h