From: Mike Stark <michael.e.stark@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Please, Not MachTen! (Was: learning Ada on a Mac)
Date: 1996/08/15
Date: 1996-08-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3213395F.6EA4@gsfc.nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.839732613@schonberg
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> Spencer said
>
> "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."
>
<<snip>>
>
> P.S. The only other source for an Ada compiler on the Mac that I am
> familiar with (not counting some not well supported Ada 83 compilers
> that are still around) is the Intermetrics JBM based compiler. This
> is a subset so far (e.g. no tasking), but generates Java compatible
> output, which is interesting for some applications, and eventually
> a full implementation is planned.
AppletMagic also lacks text_io and other run-time library stuff (at
least as of V1.3), but what's there works really nicely! I've been
using the Sun version, not the Mac one, but I don't see why that should
make a difference!
Mike
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-10 0:00 Please, Not MachTen! (Was: learning Ada on a Mac) Spencer Smith
1996-08-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-13 0:00 ` Gary McKee
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Mike Stark [this message]
1996-08-17 0:00 ` james E. Hopper
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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