[Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[Dirk Munk]

Stephen Davies wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 19:51:30 UTC+1, Simon Clubley  wrote:
>
>> I see Ada still has a question mark against it. It looks like that's
>> still causing some discussions internally. :-)
>
> Surely it couldn't have been that hard to port the existing DEC Ada '83 front
> end to IA64 and now to x64? Ok, many modern developers will want all those
> fancy tagged types and stuff but there must be a few other users who could
> have managed without them (though maybe add "use type", read 'out' parameters,
> explicit indefinite generic parameters, etc at some point?). Alas, most Ada
> development where I work has already migrated to Windows.
>


Unless I'm very much mistaken, ADA is a registered trade mark. An ADA 
compiler can only carry the name "ADA" if it is confirmed to comply with 
the latest test sets of sources every year(?). A 1983 ADA compiler 
surely has no right to carry the name "ADA" in this respect.