Re: Meridian Ada Compiler for the Mac

[gosciak@muondev.uucp (Doug Gosciak)]

In <9101171940.AA06518@winnie.fit.edu> saharbaugh%roo.dnet@WINNIE.BERKELEY.EDU writes:

>On 15 Jan 91 Mike Feldman writes:
>-This is good news! I'm glad they finally took the plunge. This is an MPW
>-system (MPW comes bundled, I believe). 
>Yes, it did
>-I'd rather see a real Mac application
>-instead of an MPW tool, but something is better than nothing. 
>Hmm, what is a "real Mac application".  I quickly learned to like
>the MPW.  To me (a systems engineer) it is like having an easy-to-use
>interface to a Unix command line system.  I launch MPW then give
>textual commands in a desktop window.  I can enter comments, cut and
>paste, scroll back and forth and repeat any command with a click and
>an "enter", etc.  If I want to know how to format a command line I pull down
>Meridian's menu, make selections by clicking etc. and 
>Meridian builds the command
>line piece-by-piece for me and explains what the command or option will do.
>My personal preference is to then cut the command line from Meridian's
>menu window to the MPW window.  I'm not too demented(yet) to not
>remember what the command and options do, so I use the "real-MAC"-like
>feature as help and work out of the MPW window.  
>Also I use multifinder and bounce around windows and tools but
>for large Ada source files I must turn multifinder off and just use MPW 
>because I only have 8MB of RAM(I can't believe I said only 8MB)
>-The compiler
>-is kinda slow, at least on my Mac+. It'll perform better on a 68020 Mac.
>Yes, its much much faster on a IIci (25MHZ 68030) than on Mac+
>-Another breakthrough. A decent Mac compiler for $149. is a welcome event.
>So my message is to give MPW a try, you might like it.

>sam harbaugh  saharbaugh%ROO.DNET@WINNIE.FIT.EDU       
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Did I miss something? " A decent Mac compiler for $149. is a welcome event."? 
Does this mean that AdaZ is available for the MPW environment on the Mac? Please
say yes!!!!


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