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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Renaissance-Ada, a toolset for legacy Ada software, made open source
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:27:19 +0000
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"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com> writes:

> On 27/01/2022 12:32, Pierre van de Laar wrote:
>> Dear Members of comp.lang.ada,
>> We would like to inform you that we have made Renaissance-Ada, a
>> toolset  for legacy Ada software, open source:
>> https://github.com/TNO/Renaissance-Ada
>> 
>
> What does "for legacy Ada software" mean?

Looking at the link, it seems that it's software that has been just
growing, to the point at which it's becoming unmaintainable. I don't see
anything that says Ada83 (though software with that sort of problem is
likely to have been around for a long time).