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From: Mike Stark <michael.e.stark@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Please, Not MachTen! (Was: learning Ada on a Mac)
Date: 1996/08/15
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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