From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,577c9f9c0cdd76d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gautier Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing Date: 1999/11/01 Message-ID: <381DE427.4A04F864@maths.unine.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 543189821 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7vbtof$de9$1@oceanite.cybercable.fr> <38199224_3@news1.prserv.net> <3819A44A.9F5E6B97@maths.unine.ch> <7vhh53$81f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote an interesting recapitulation about Ada and Mac, and... > Of course, there is no cost free solution under Windows either, > since you have to pay for NT or Windows (perhaps it comes with > your PC, but that just means the cost is included in the cost > of the PC). I disagree: when you already are under Windows, you don't have to pay for it - hum... unless you buy Plus!(c), the latest updates, the upgrade, the RAM necessary to make the upgrade run decently, the... > The only really free solution in the PC world is > to run GNAT on GNU Linux :-) There is a second one: Lineo DR-DOS and GNAT/DOS (DJGPP)... of course not so strong, but with a true, concurrent multitasking kernel... http://www.lineo.com/products/drdos.html About the Mac: I have the impression that Apple doesn't like the idea of people programming their machines. They seem to prefer to separate the "grand public" from the elite of programmers. The latter ones developing software for the first ones are meant to be professional gurus who will have access to sacred documents, tools to transform a Mac into a computer, eventually a compiler if they pay enough... Gautier