[Info-vax] ada archives and debug

[gérard Calliet]

Le 21/01/2018 à 00:22, Jan-Erik Soderholm a écrit :
> Question is, would the customer/user rather move away from OpenVMS
> rather then move away from Ada (and stay on OpenVMS)?
> 
The customer I "saved" from going away from VMS use my GNAT Ada build on 
VMS. He wants now more comfort.

> Unfortunately, it is this kind of "issues" that might push custumers
> away from OpenVMS.
You are right. Adacore says they have closed the last VMS support 
contracts this year: the customer have moved away from VMS to keep Ada, 
and some have moved away from Ada *and* VMS (for example rewritting on 
Java). (I'm already too late, except for customers on DEC Ada Alpha, 
whom noone knows).

In a sense, VMS and Ada are on the same boat: old great technologies, 
and, as "business is businness", better scutling the boat than taking 
time to think about sustainability.
(I had a picture on that, when I went round Europe in 2013, remember?).

Gérard Calliet