Please, Not MachTen! (Was: learning Ada on a Mac)

[Spencer Smith <spencera@helios.cs.uoregon.edu>]

Hi Y'all;
I was pleased to see that GNAT was available on the Mac platform. I was
tickled pink! I quickly followed the link, and. . .
. . .was very disappointed. The fact that the GNAT Ada compiler was
available was heartening, but that it needs MachTen to run in is not. I
have installed and experimented with MachTen, and as an environment for
developing applications and tools, it is a bear. I had the *worst* time,
so bad that I finally gave up my dream of dual-booting a Mac with Unix.
The OSF/Apple port of MkLinux is out, and I'm using it/ running
it/cursing it/loving it. It has a *lot* of potential. I haven't tried to
install GNAT within the MkLinux environment, has anyone else given it a
try?
However, that is still developing Unix apps on a fundamentally Unix
platform, regardless of the cute logos imbedded on the case of the CPU.
I'm still in search of an Ada95 compiler for the Mac platform.

Does anyone know of any such? Validated would be best, but I'm will ing
to beta if I can work with Ada. (hey, that kinda rhymes. Huh-huck!)

Please e-mail me with any info that you might have. I'm all ears. Well,
mostly ears, I have eyes too. And a hand, well, two hands. Oh, hell,
it's just a metphor anyway!

-Spencer Smith
spencera@helios.uoregon.edu