Re: Ada compiler in BASIC?

[bjarne.backstrom@telia.com (Bjarne Bäckström)]

<tmoran@bix.com> wrote:

> > I am trying to find the Byte magazine article about an Ada compiler
> > written in BASIC.
>   A search of the on-line title indexes for Byte for 1988-94
> (byte.index/digest.nn on BIX, nee Byte Information eXchange) doesn't
> find any hits on Ada.  The first message in BIX's ada/general forum
> apparently is dated 1986, but the content has been scrolled off-line.
> I posted a query there.
>   You might inquire at RR Software since, I believe, they had the
> first or second Ada for PCs and advertised in Byte, so they would
> have noticed such an article.
>   I don't recall any such article and would be quite surprised if
> it existed.

   A search on my local disks...found this abstract. :-) If this is the
same compiler, the article actually appeared in Dr. Dobb's Journal,
issues 75, 77, 79 and 81 (January to July 1983.) It's a "Tiny Ada"
p-code compiler/interpreter, called "Augusta." There were two sets of
source code, written in Microsoft BASIC and Borland Turbo Pascal.

   The article also mentioned a 160 page book about Augusta, that was
available from Microsystems Inc., 4147 Beethoven Street, Los Angeles,
CA, 90066.

/Bjarne.