Re: ada and robots

["John G. Volan" <johnvolan@sprintmail.com>]

Dale Stanbrough wrote:
> 
> John Cook writes:
> 
> "small systems a student can afford"
>         The Meridian Ada compiler, which comes for free with a book, is rather
>         cheap, and targets any of the 8086 family (which are cheap, no?).
>         It is Ada83 however. So I think you agree with you.

Come now, don't tell me you haven't heard of GNAT?  It runs on pretty
near everything (UNIX, DOS, Wintel, even Mac).  And you can download it
for free.  (Well, on a Mac you have to spend $99 to get Machten, a port
of BSD Unix that runs as a Mac app, but then you get GNAT for free. And
it does let you write standalone Mac apps in Ada.)

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