[net.lang.ada] Where are the Ada* compilers?

dcn@ihuxl.UUCP (Dave Newkirk) (04/06/84)

This is extracted from a letter in the April ACM by Robert E. Fritz that asks
a tough question: where is an Ada* compiler?

	... The only thing that seems to be missing after five years of the
	Ada age is a compiler capable of solving the problems for which Ada
	was originally designed.
	... the government has not yet produced a usable validated compiler.
	... There are THREE validated Ada compilers: one which executes at
	10 lines per minute, another with a maximum program length of 300
	lines, and a third which operates on a computer excluded from use
	by two-thirds of DoD.

Were the Ada critics right when they said that full Ada compilers were too
hard to build?  How much of Ada's 40 year life span do we have to wait for
a compiler?
					Dave Newkirk, ihnp4!ihuxl!dcn