Re: Decent ADA compiler on a Mac

[collins@cs.wm.edu (Bob Collins)]

In article <gmckee.1146141718A@news-2.csn.net>
gmckee@cloudnine.com (Gary McKee) writes:
>In Article <1995Mar20.152421.24324@cs.wm.edu>, collins@cs.wm.edu (Bob
>Collins) wrote:
>>(BTW, MetroWerks sells a CD with integrated development environment
>>compilers for Pascal, C, and C++; with code generators for
>>Mac Motorola 680x0, Mac Power PC, and Windows Intel 80x86/Pentium;
>>running fat on both 680x0 and Power PC for an academic price of $99.
>>This entitles one to three CDs in one year. This is the kind of
>>competition Ada faces in the real world, if one can label the
>>academic world real. I don't work for them, so no email addresses
>>or phone numbers.)
>
>The $99 price for MetroWerks CodeWarrior is for 'anyone', not just academics
>but it only generates 680x0 code (no Power PC code). 
>It is called "MetroWerks Bronze".

Nope. The $99 price is for academic Platinum, and is in effect for the
next version. Currently, only Intel is not supported. Otherwise, the
description I gave is accurate. There also is a cheap Bronze for
everyone as pointed out, but that is not what I was talking about.