>It would also be nice if more Ada compilers validated Annex E. I know of >at least one vendor who has stated to at least one customer that since >CORBA, the Ada Annex E is superfluous and they won't waste money on it. >Similarly, I know of Ada programmers that say Annex E is useless because >it's Ada-only, and one-language systems are a thing of the past. Annex E would be quite nice for a system I worked on recently, but even when it is supported by various compiler vendors, as far as I am aware there isn't any requirement for the different vendiors implementations to be capable of interacting so, for example, if we have different Ada compilers for different target processors, Annex E probably wouldn't be of much use as far as I can tell. CORBA on the other hand would have been excellent because there are various languages in use, but no-one would buy it :-( John