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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada compiler for PC?
Date: 1999/04/20
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In article <3718d384.254178@news.pacbell.net>, tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) writes:
>>I am curious if there is a latest version of an Ada compiler
>>anywhere for download, but I more interested in it being for a Win98 
>>platform rather than the for-free aspect of it. 
> Several companies (www.aonix.com, www.gnat.com, www.rrsoftware.com
> and, I think, Greenhils, DDC, and Idaho Engineering Labs) offer Window
> Ada compilers  If you want one for the price of a download (but
> obviously without free support) look at Aonix (size limits on the
> downloadable compiler) or Gnat.
>   If "latest version" means in-house in alpha testing, you won't find
> it.  The latest version that's publicly available for download is the
> version that's publicly available for download.

On the other hand, I think it possible that "latest" meant "conforming
to the most recent Ada standard".  Since that standard was completed
in 1995, it is the one addressed by all of those compilers.

Larry Kilgallen