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From: Dave Taylor <dtaylor@ionet.net>
Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/10/30
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Matthew Heaney wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

I agree with everything that Matt said above.

Dave Taylor