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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT 3.03 for OS/2
Date: 1996/03/25
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Tore Joergensen wrote:
> 
> Dale Pontius (pontius@twonky.btv.ibm.com) wrote:
> : The OS/2 world is rather language-poor. Outside of C/C++, there are a
> : few commercial Pascal extensions, a few Modula-2's, a Modula-3, maybe
> : Eiffel soon, etc. As for workstation (AIX) <--> OS/2 portability,
> : there are only a few options, and Ada may well be the best of them.
...
> There are some compilers in addition to the C/C++ and Pascal/Modula-x :-).
> After a quick look in the Indelible-Blue catalog, I found:
> IBM VisualAge Cobol, IBM VisualAge Smalltalk, PL/1, APL2, Fortran 77,
> CA-Realizer and of course several REXX implementations. If you make
> GUI programs, I think VisualAge Smalltalk gives you best portability
...

IBM also has a port of Java for OS/2.


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