Why not gnat Ada in gcc?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 10011020241.AA06270@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu >you write:
  >     Not really for GDB.  I can count the number of external contributors on
  >  one
  >     hand that existed before we made a repository available on sourceware.
  > 
  > Are you counting the number of people doing development work on GDB
  > during that period or the number of those who made attempts to merge
  > their changes back?
The number of people trying to do development.

  > I agree the number of the latter were small, but
  > the number of the former was far larger (and included a lot of large
  > "players", such as Wind River and HP).
Err, no.  WRS was not active, nor was HP at the time.  HP has become somewhat
more active, but mostly working strictly on their own internal sources.  Go
to gdb-patches and see how many posts are coming out of WRS or HP.  You'll
still find depressingly few from those two companies given how many developers
they have.

  > With Ada, there's no evidence
  > that there are people working on it at all at this point.
And as long as you continue to keep putting ACT in a privileged position
with GNU Ada developers are extremely unlikely to emerge.

jeff