----- Original Message ----- From: "Pascal Obry" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 11:46 PM Subject: Re: Decline of Ada popularity (was Re: Proposal : For-Loop...) > > All in all, Toshitaka, I agree with you here. My reaction was more regarding > the Net life of Ada. I think that Ada has never been so alive in the Internet > community. This is important because more and more projects are beeing > done. Most (all ?) of them using GNU/Ada and here we agree, GNAT is very > good for the Ada community. I think it would be Very Good for the community of someone could finish the work of c2ada, and make it both complete and free. I write this after your comment about GNAT, since I think it could be offered both as a free public version and as a professional version with consultation. I would prefer to see ACT pick this up since they could just package it with GNAT and help projects migrate away from C towards GNU/Ada95. If the same could be done for C++ it would help migrate a lot of professional projects to Ada as well. What I'd like to see is something that could convert the Common Lisp source or Perl 5 source into GNAT-compilable Ada95 in one pass. Entire open source communities could be suceptible to "Ada conversion" if such a tool existed. Vive le Revolution!