Hi Managers,
My earlier question was :-
Does anyone know why DEC have dropped support for ADA under DU 4.0 ?
A brief summary of the replies follows:-
Apparently there is a known problem with the Ada support libraries that shipped
with V4.0, and it should be fixed in the next available release. This may be
December due to ADA needing fixes to the threads code in the kernel.
Basically it seems what was shipped in V4.0 for Ada runtime is very broken.
It apparently got discovered too late to fix it. So it got a release note
saying it's "not supported".
In any case, there is no intention to drop Ada support permanently, it's
just a temporary glitch.
Digital's position on Ada hasn't changed. Ada is no longer a "strategic"
language for Digital. We will not be moving to Ada95 with DEC Ada.
However, the product will be supported for the forseeable future. This includes
operating system updates.
Thanks to :-
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn
David R. Courtade
Pat Lampert
Stephen Carpenter
Angela
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