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| 3867.1 | the short answer is "yes" | BEGIN::YODER | It's 999,943 to 1 but it just might work | Fri Apr 25 1997 08:44 | 10 |
| I am morally certain that DEC Ada will never be made into an Ada95
compiler. No sensitivity here, I knew the job was dangerous when I
took it...
Digital's Ada95 solutions are Rational's Ada and GNAT, maintained by
Ada Core Technologies.
Disclaimer: I'm not stating official policy, just repeating my
understanding of it.
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| 3867.2 | Not dead yet, but not going to Ada '95 either | KMOOSE::CMCCUTCHEON | Charlie McCutcheon | Fri Apr 25 1997 11:07 | 15 |
| Yes, DEC Ada will not go to the Ada '95 standard.
We are, however, planning future releases of DEC Ada.
We have provided Ada '95 solutions through other vendors for Digital UNIX
and OpenVMS Alpha. ACT's gnat compiler is currently in field test.
See notes marked with keyword ada_95, 3653, 3764 which include some official
Digital positions.
More information can be obtained from our product manger, Cathy TEAMLK::Axel
on these partnerships, and on DEC Ada futures.
Charlie
DEC Ada project leader
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| 3867.3 | Re: .1,.2 : Thanks. | COMEUP::SIMMONDS | loose canon | Sun Apr 27 1997 03:10 | 0 |
| 3867.4 | | TLE::BRETT | | Sun Apr 27 1997 22:49 | 7 |
| end-of-life?
remember that Ada was designed for long-lived projects, many of the Ada'83
large programs ar only just coming on line...
/Bevin
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| 3867.5 | | COMEUP::SIMMONDS | loose canon | Tue Apr 29 1997 04:13 | 8 |
| Re: .4
.4> end-of-life?
Yes, but I was asking about the expected active growth/support life of the
DIGITAL-Engineered Ada compilers on OpenVMS, and not about the Language..
or did I miss-understand your comment?..
John.
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| 3867.6 | | TLE::BRETT | | Tue Apr 29 1997 08:53 | 4 |
| My remark was intended to imply that Digital will have to support those
projects for a very long time. Exactly how that plays out remains to be seen.
/Bevin
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| 3867.7 | clarification, maybe | BEGIN::YODER | It's 999,943 to 1 but it just might work | Tue Apr 29 1997 10:14 | 5 |
| Re: .5
The "expected active growth/support life" is an ambivalent quantity.
I'd say you should expect little growth but active support, assuming
my usage of these words matches yours.
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| 3867.8 | | KMOOSE::CMCCUTCHEON | Charlie McCutcheon | Tue Apr 29 1997 12:02 | 10 |
| I have planned releases for DEC Ada in the foreseeable future. We're in
field test for V3.4 for OpenVMS VAX now, and about to start the V3.4 for
OpenVMS Alpha release.
We continue getting customer problem reports, and we continue to fix them.
If you need some sort of statement on DEC Ada futures, you'll need to
contact our product manager, Cathy TEAMLK::Axel.
Charlie
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