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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!esseye!jdbbs!muondev!gosciak From: gosciak@muondev.uucp (Doug Gosciak) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Meridian Ada Compiler for the Mac Message-ID: <1991Jan20.161229.9227@muondev.uucp> Date: 20 Jan 91 16:12:29 GMT References: <9101171940.AA06518@winnie.fit.edu> Organization: Micro Unlimited List-Id: 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 >--------------------- Did I miss something? " A decent Mac compiler for $149. is a welcome event."? Does this mean that AdaZ is available for the MPW environment on the Mac? Please say yes!!!! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Snail: Doug R. Gosciak Quote: Become the one Net: gosciak@muondev.uucp 3321 Wyoming SW you dream you GEnie: DGOSCIAK Wyoming, MI 49509 can be. CI$: 72115,703