From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d9c8012b4e758e87,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Simon Johnston Subject: Re: ez2load helping Ada Date: 1996/07/15 Message-ID: <01BB7223.1B9B3940@idc213.rb.icl.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168378013 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Chris said " I have been spending some time handing out copies of the EZ2LOAD = package assembled by Prof Mike Feldman and co. I just want to say that, now this version includes tasking, it is really starting to attract serious = attention. Ironically this GNAT port runnning on perhaps the worst operating of all = the ones it is ported to, is one of the most important. Important that is = for helping the spread of Ada into grass-roots/home computing. It gives Ada = a chance to win the hearts and minds of the young people who will be = building the big systems in the 21st century." Actually I think the really important version of GNAT will be the WIndows/95 version, since after all these days even the cheapest computer you can buy comes with Win95 preinstalled. So now what we need is a really slick installation package for the Win95 version using a standard Win95 Wizard, and then hopefully we can incorporate some of the nice environment stuff from EZ2LOAD. (This is one of the reasons I am personally switching to Ada 95). The DOS version will of course continue to have some considerable use on obsolete machines, which will take a while to die out, although I think that will happen faster than people think. The other day I bought a brand new NEC machine with a 486 and 8 megs of memory and a 2X CD ROM and a 170 meg hard drive for under $400. That machine would be quite fine for running student programs under Win95 using GNAT. I have to agree with Robert here, although the DOS version is = significant today I think that the Win32 version is where the future = lies. It is very frustrating to see the Win32 version always a revision = behind the other GNAT ports, though I know the team at LabTek are doing = a great job, and although the installation is improving it would be nice = to see the LabTek installation be a little more complete so as to be a = one-stop Win32 Ada solution. For instance include the Win32Ada bindings, the ADEPT Annex-E = imlementation and so-on to produce a complete ready to go environment. = You could even include on-line versions of the RM and have the MS style = tick-box installation allow you to install as little or as much as you = like. This may seem like a lot to some but this is a major market if we = can find the right packaging and I would like to see the LabTek compiler = really take off. with StandardDisclaimer; use StandardDisclaimer; package Sig is --,----------------------------------------------------------------------= ---. --|Simon K. Johnston - Development Engineer (C++/Ada95) |ICL Retail = Systems | --|-----------------------------------------------------|3/4 Willoughby = Road| --|Unix Mail: skj@acm.org |Bracknell = | --|Telephone: +44 (0)1344 476320 Fax: +44 (0)1344 476302|Berkshire = | --|Internal : 7261 6320 OP Mail: S.K.Johnston@BRA0801 |RG12 8TJ = | --|WWW URL : http://www.acm.org/~skj/ |United Kingdom = | --`----------------------------------------------------------------------= ---' end Sig;