Re: Macintosh Ada95 Development Systems...?

[jmatthews@nova.wright.edu (Dr. John B. Matthews)]

In article <1997Jan13.064244.1@eisner>, kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> In article <turnefh-ya02408000R1201972323100001@news.earthlink.net>, turnefh@mail.auburn.edu ("Fred H. Turner, III") writes:
> 
>> For starters, I guess that there's no fully-Macintosh way to develop Ada
>> programs-- you have to do it in a Unix environment, right?
> 
> That is correct.  There is no amount of money which could produce
> a non-Unix full Macintosh Ada95 development environment before your
> class is concluded.

Well, Tenon's CodeBuilder, which hosts the GNU Ada 95 compiler among
others, is a UNIX, but it's also a well-behaved Mac application. You
can use your favorite Mac editor (BBEdit, Alpha, MPW...) or the
"built-in" editor vi. You can type "macmake myprog" or invoke your
favorite QuicKeys macro. Etc.

I'd say it's "fully-Macintosh", although it may be more like MPW
than CodeWarrior. And the resulting applications _are_ fully
stand-alone, royalty-free, double-clickable programs. Of course, CB
is PowerPc only.
 
>> P.S. I don't suppose there's any way to make use of my CodeWarrior
>> investment while learning Ada...?

Actually, objects produced by CW can be linked into CB. I haven't
tried vice-versa, but that should work, too. And ZoneRanger is a
useful tool in either environment.

John
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