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From: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: comp.sources.misc Administrivia: VMS binary problem solved
Message-ID: <344@inco.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 10:59:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: inco.344
Posted: Tue Aug  4 10:59:06 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Aug-87 01:48:14 EDT
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Organization: McDonnell Douglas-INCO, McLean, VA
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Summary: Few Ada(TM) compilers for VMS???

In article <3707@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
> Most commonly asked question:  "Why didn't he post sources?"
> He did.  Unfortunately, they were in Ada; not many Ada compilers out there for
> VMS.  So he posted a binary of the program for those lacking Ada compilers.

Brandon, there are at least 8 Ada compilers for VMS.
I don't know how many people who run VMS actually have an Ada compiler,
but it isn't because they aren't out there.

Refusing to post source in Ada because there aren't very many compilers is
bogus. There aren't very many Modula-2 compilers around either, but that
hasn't stopped people from posting Modula-2 code.

If you have the source available, you might consider submitting it to the
SIMTEL20 Ada Archive.

I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing it posted to comp.sources.misc. Porting
Ada for VMS to a Unix Ada compiler isn't much more horrible than converting
a SysV program that uses termio heavily to BSD.

Thanks,


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