From: icsu8209@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Glassy)
Subject: wanted: PD Ada Interpreter written in C
Date: 27 Feb 90 04:37:41 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3447@caesar.cs.montana.edu> (raw)
Do any validated Ada interpreters written in C exist? Any PD ones obtainable
from an anon. ftp site?
As a CS u/g wading through the usual stream of data structures/algorithms
courses, I wince at having to try to emulate 'abstract' (generic!) data
types in ISO Pascal. As an experiment last quarter, I wrote one of my
assignments in Ada ( a PD version for PC's, JANUS-Ada ), and while the
performance of this specific implementation did not impress me
(compilation speed of ~140 lines/min., on a 12-Mhz 80286 w/ 80287 &
1 meg RAM, 30 Meg 28-ms hard disk), Ada's facilities for structuring
data in a simple and digestible way, did.
Why PD from ftp site? Answer: look at DEC's software prices!
Why in C? Ans: to be able to port to any of the local Unix/VMS platforms.
Why interpreted? well, a compiled version -would- be preferable,
but I suspect people would be more comfortable giving an interpreter
away. and the GNU people seem to want nothing to do with Ada...
Any pointers would be dearly appreciated. Please e-mail responses;
I'll post summary to net if I'm swamped with replies... :)
Thanks in advance,
Lou Glassy
icsu8209@caesar.cs.montana.edu
(Bitnet: icsu8209@mtsunix1)
p.s. if this is not the right group to ask things like this in, i'll
gladly follow any good advice that comes my way.
(std-discl apply etc)
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1990-02-27 4:37 Glassy [this message]
1990-02-27 18:23 ` wanted: PD Ada Interpreter written in C Terry J. Westley
1990-02-27 21:21 ` what is an Ada compiler John F Nixon
1990-02-28 19:30 ` Loren Louis Hart
1990-02-28 15:59 ` wanted: PD Ada Interpreter written in C Glassy
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