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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d20a6e14662ad471 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-24 08:10:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BD6D97C.8129120F@west.raytheon.com> From: Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey"@west.raytheon.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD CSC;Raytheon (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advice needed! Ada compilers for school project. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 08:08:44 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.83.38 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1003936232 147.24.83.38 (Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:10:32 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:10:32 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15129 Date: 2001-10-24T08:08:44-07:00 List-Id: Ben wrote: > > I am taking a college Programming Languages course. Our semester > project is to write a language manual on the language given to us. > Mine is Ada. > > We will be required to assign a lab to the class in the language > assigned to us. So I will be assigning a lab in Ada. My professor has > asked each of us to specify a compiler that we would like to have > installed. > > So, I shall ask those with experience: what Ada compiler would be best > suited for students with no experience in Ada, easy to use or pick up, > easy to write instructions for. > > If there are multiple compilers that fit the bill then please list all > of them. > > Thank you very much. > > Regards, > Ben GNAT would be your best. You can get from: ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/ Also if you are using Windows, get the latest GUI (AdaGIDE) from: http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/adagide.html Jerry -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Jerry Petrey -- Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Navigation, Guidance, & Control -- Raytheon Missile Systems - Member Team Ada & Team Forth -- NOTE: please remove in email address to reply -----------------------------------------------------------------------------