Ada for the masses, without the messes!

Ada for the masses, without the messes!

[Paul Raulerson]

I use the Telesoft Ada compiler on Sun workstations, and the 
Ready Systems RTX cross compiler version, every day.  I also
use the Meridian Prof, Developers Pack on my Macs.  I can't 
help but be a little dissapointed in both of 'em.  

The Telesoft compiler, while nice, often gives the wierdest 
compiler error messages you would blieve possible; the Meridian
compiler on the Mac is, well..... Let me just give you an example.
The sample programs that come with it start off with about a 
page and half of unchecked coversions.  Most depressing. 

Why do Ada compilers have little "messes" in then like these? 
Is there some reason, or are Ada compilers just so young that 
it is inevitable?  
-Paul

Re: Unchecked conversions in Mac Meridian Ada

[Terry J. Westley]

In article <14@lgnp1.ls.com> paulr@ls.com (Paul Raulerson) writes:
>the Meridian
>compiler on the Mac is, well..... Let me just give you an example.
>The sample programs that come with it start off with about a 
>page and half of unchecked coversions.  Most depressing. 

I just purchased this compiler and am using it to learn Mac ToolBox
programming.  I've gotten the impression that the reason for these
unchecked conversions is because of the design of the Mac, not because
of Ada or any strange thing Meridian has done.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong?

So far, this compiler seems fairly reasonable in the Mac/MPW
environment, although it is excrutiatingly slow on my SE.

-- 
Terry J. Westley
Arvin/Calspan Advanced Technology Center
P.O. Box 400, Buffalo, NY 14225
westley%planck.uucp@acsu.buffalo.edu