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Date: 12 Dec 92 22:27:11 GMT
From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net  (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Ada compiler wanted!
Message-ID: <1992Dec12.222711.2187@seas.gwu.edu>
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In article <1992Dec12.201015.11165@nwnexus.WA.COM> emagnuso@halcyon.com (Erik M
agnuson) writes:
>In article <1992Dec9.084239.25699@sei.cmu.edu> ae@sei.cmu.edu (Arthur Evans) w
rites:
>>DGB4@psuvm.psu.edu asks
>>    Does a NON-MPW Ada compiler exist for the Macintosh? ...
>>
>[existing Mac compiler stuff deleted]
>>The future looks better, though.  Robert Dewar, who is part of the GNAT
>>Project at NYU that is implementing Ada under GNU, told me that there
>>will be a Mac port on that project.  When?  Perhaps the middle of 1993?
>>That product, like all GNU products, will cost no more than media
>>copying and probably be available free by FTP.
>>
>>At Evans
>
>Is this really likely given the FSF antipathy to Apple? Do the GNAT
>implementors feel bound by RMS request to boycott Apple and not
>support GNU software on Apple?
>
Interesting question. I'm not sure whether NYU per se will do the Mac
port, but there will undoubtedly be a port, if for no other reason than
there are so many Macs in education. There is a gcc for the Mac.

Stallman must be in a bit of a quandary: the FSF side of him wants to
see dispersion of free software as widely as possible; the LPF side of
him wants to boycott Apple. 

Mike Feldman