Re: Ada-compiler for Macintosh?

[Greg Bond <bond@ee.ubc.ca>]

Bob Collins wrote:
> 
> In article <199610271435.a199@k2.maus.de>, Odo_Wolbers@k2.maus.de (Odo
> Wolbers) wrote:
> 
> > does anybody know about Ada-compilers for Macintosh, especially
> > PowerMacintosh?
> 
> I'm really disappointed that Intermetrics decided not to
> build a Macintosh Ada compiler. Most Macintosh users do
> not consider an Ada compiler running in Unix on top of the
> MacOS to be a "Macintosh" Ada compiler. If a Macintosh user
> wanted Unix, why not buy a PC and install Linux?

<snip>

Because a PC running Linux couldn't run Mac applications side-by-side
with Unix. Tenon's Unix for the Mac runs as a Mac application, so you
can run other Mac apps at the same time as you are, say, devloping GNAT
apps (with BBEdit or Alpha as your text editor if you wish).
Furthermore,since Tenon's Unix permits the development of hybrid
Unix/MacOS apps,  I fully expect to see more Mac-like front-ends being
developed for the Unix development tools (not that anything's likely to
supercede emacs...).

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