Re: JGNAT status??? (Volunteers?)

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

"Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1029204062.16204.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> From: Bob Leif
> To: Ant?io Vargas et al.
> You might try another approach. Ask how many of us would 
> pay some
> reasonable amount, $50 to $100 for a copy of JGNAT. To 
> add to my heresy,

I don't see any heresy there. If you think that's a viable
economic model, why don't you put your money where your
mouth is and give it a go? :-)

> I would suggest a version of JGNAT that worked with 
> Microsoft's intermediate language. 

That's technically confused. What distinguishes JGNAT from
the regular version of GNAT is code that depends entirely
on the structure and details of the JVM.

A version of GNAT that generated .NET compatible pseudo-code would be
a completely new project (requiring
effort of the order of person years from people who knew
what they were doing). Yes, perhaps you could derive some
useful input, and even possibly *some* copied code from JGNAT, but in
no sense would this be a "version of JGNAT".

A version of GNAT generating code for .NET is certainly
a perfectly reasonable idea. So far however we have seen
zero interest/demand in such a product.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies