Re: New Ada Student

[Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>]

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He's not running on Win32, but on Solaris.  I don't think he can use AdaGide.  He
said he was using Grasp.  That's been around the barn a few times too, however.  If
he's using jGrasp then he can even print (one of standard Grasp's real defects).
Pity they felt that they needed to switch to Java though.  Now it's so slow that I
keep both versions around.  Grasp to work in, and jGrasp to print out the results.

Geoffrey Gar-Wah Yu wrote:

> David Michaels <free08@my-deja.com> writes:
>
> >Hi I am a brand new Ada student, I'm enrolled in a computer science
> >course at a univ cinci, I'm takeing Ada as a elective so be kind with
> >any flames. This is my first post to this news group. And I promise I
> >won't post again unless its urgent.
>
> >My teacher is instucting using Feldman/Koffman Ada 95 the software he is
> >using is gnat3.11p and the Adaguide i'm not sure if I spelled that write
> >it's the ide for windows, he is running windows 98
>
> >I run solaris x86 and I'm using gnat3.12p and grasp.
>
> >Does anyone have any opinions as to whether or not my programs will
> >compile and link on the schools windows machines? I am concerned about
> >compatibility between platforms and versions.
>
> The Ada language was developed so that when any 'language' changes were
> finalised and published then all future compilers/parsers/interpreters..
> anything to do with the Ada language had to be compliant. Unlike languages
> like C or C++ different companies added there own flavour to the language
> and so sometimes it was uncertain to get 100% platform compatabible. However
> I'm not sure how accurate each Ada compiler has to be to the language...
> but there are very strict standards to keep the language clean from
> varying current versions.
>
> I find that Ada was pretty solid on the PC and UNIX platforms... I used
> them at uni. I mean I can't remember if I had any troubles recompiling
> source from PC to UNIX and vice versa without no platform dependent errors...
>
> So I think it should be ok... And since you are using AdaGIDE that uses
> GNAT... it is pretty solid on the PC and UNIX platforms. So I think you
> shouldn't have many problems transporting your code from your Solaris
> to Windows platform...
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Geoffrey
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