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From: "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/10/29
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In article <3819A44A.9F5E6B97@maths.unine.ch> , Gautier 
<Gautier.deMontmollin@maths.unine.ch>  wrote:

> A propos... is there a _completely free_ downloadable
> Ada95 solution (e.g. a shell+gnat) for MacOS ?

Not for MacOS.  I use LinuxPPC, with a home-grown port of GNAT v3.11p.
Monitor the gnat-list for a (non-ACT) port of v3.12p to LinuxPPC.

<http://www.linuxppc.com/>
<http://www.linuxppc.org/>
<http://www.gnuada.org/alt.html>

There may be a GNAT port available soon for Debian GNU/Linux.

I actually prefer the Linux environment, since there's never any
conflict with MacOS (no crashes, etc), and I get a real Meta key, which
makes emacs use a lot easier.

I was never happy with the support I got from Tenon anyway.  Apps
weren't ported to their shell; the shell would crash and bring down my
machine; email asking for help went unanswered.

My life would be a lot simpler if I'd just give in and buy a Wintel box,
or switch to C++.  But I prefer to tilt at windmills, so I struggle to
use Ada95 on a Mac...  Oh, well.

Things will be easier once ACT makes public versions of their LinuxPPC
port available, but that probably won't be at least until v3.13p.


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