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: 103376,8a6e6d9458ae6ddc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news-in.mts.net!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is this a bug? References: <5ad0dd8a.0409221652.6a69b336@posting.google.com> <93L4d.103178$D%.86315@attbi_s51> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <8Ze8d.10026$jj2.459772@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:36:57 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1096907716 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:35:16 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:35:16 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4668 Date: 2004-10-04T12:36:57-04:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > "Jeff C r e e.m" writes: >>"Stephen Leake" wrote in message > >> >>>Hmm. GCC does not _always_ include Ada; the only language in the root >>>gcc distribution is C; all other languages are in a separate >>>distribution. So "GNAT 3.4.2" to me means "GCC 3.4.2 with Ada >>>support". Seems like a reasonable abbreviation. >> >>The problem is it seems reasonable but will eventually lead to version >>number collision. >>GCC 4.0 will be realeased fairly soon (Well somewhat soon). >> >>GNAT 4.0 was released in 1997. GNAT 4.0 was a fully certified >>implementation. Ada support in GCC 4.0 is likely to be pretty buggy. > > All true. But by the time gcc 4.0 is released, it will be clear from > context which is meant. The problem is that Google has a long memory. Seaching historical information becomes a greater problem if you mix the references to products. Even in the present, you'd want to start excluding references to dates prior to a given point in time, which is a pain. IMHO, it is best to avoid any confusion. The Ada community has enough challenges facing it. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg