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                                 mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu writes:

>In article <conn.742651385@wuarchive.wustl.edu> conn@wuarchive.wustl.edu 
>(Richard Conn) writes:
>>progers@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Pat Rogers) writes:
>>
>>>Does anyone know of an interpreter for (a subset of) Ada?  For example,
>>>the UCI Arcturus project, I believe, had such a beast. Is there a public
>>>domain tool available?
>>
>>>Many thanks,
>>>Pat Rogers
>>>
>>There are the GWU SmallAda and NYU Ada/Ed offerings in the PAL, Pat.
>>They are not interpreters, tho.
>>
>Well, yes and no. Both SmallAda and Ada/Ed are both compilers and interpreters
.
>Ada is compiled in both cases to a "P-code" lower-level language. This is then
>"executed" by an interpreter. 
>
>If what you are looking for is an interpreter that will, say, immediately
>execute a line of Ada code typed at the terminal, like a Basic interpreter,
>you might look at ACE, the Ada Command Environment developed by (for) STARS.
>at one point it was available from STARS by anonymous ftp. I don't know its
>current status.

ACE version 8.0 can be retrieved through ASSET (Asset Source for
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ASSET_A_153:  ACE (Ada Command Environment)
     The Ada Command Environment (ACE) is an interactive Ada
environment coupled with a set of Ada abstract data types (ADTs).  The
interactive environment allows users to rapidly prototype general Ada
applications, while the ADTs allow prototyping of applications for
particular domains, such as X Window System applications.  In
addition, the ADTs provide an Ada view of underlying applications,
which when combined with the interactive environment replaces the
traditional role of a command language.  When using ACE, Ada becomes
the command language as well as the programming language.  This
version of ACE includes support for X Window System prototyping.  This
asset includes the ACE Users Manual.

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