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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,79f5c8d5de610eef X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-26 18:34:58 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Verdix VADS ADA or GNU ADA on an SGI... Date: 26 Sep 1994 19:53:29 -0400 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <367mtp$km9@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <1994Sep22.143838.388@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <366e7t$et5@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1994-09-26T19:53:29-04:00 List-Id: Ted is basically accurate in his assessment of GNAT (I am pleased to hear that he has managed to gte it to work for him). Just one amendment is that the tasking is available on some other platforms besides Suns, and in particular, the tasking will be available on several other machines including the SGI very shortly. An important factor in risk mitigation with using early versions of GNAT is indeed to be careful about what features you use. GNAT itself has been using nothing but GNAT to compile itself for over 15 months, and we have found it to be a VERY reliable compiler, but we certainly don't use some of the more difficult aspects of Ada (complex private types, aggregates, complex variant records etc), which helps to account for our good experience. It's certainly early to be using GNAT for mission critical stuff, but a number of projects have done, and are doing so successfully already, and each new version of GNAT improves the stability and completeness substantially (keep those bug reports coming in!)