Re: Wanted: Ada environment for Mac

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <gspnx-2311941731240001@macstud1.di.unito.it>,
Fabrizio Oddone <gspnx@di.unito.it> wrote:
>In article <1994Nov17.110738.33101@cc.usu.edu>, slcpw@cc.usu.edu wrote:
>
>> Is there an Ada environment for the Mac?  I'm a cs student and would like to
>> broaden my language base and am looking for PD or cheap environments that
>> I can work on.
>
>I am currently working on the 1.2 version of GW-Ada Mac, a free Ada environment.
>I think it will be announced when it ships (Real Soon Now).
>Stay tuned,

Stay tuned indeed. I expect that we will wrap this up for the net within
the next week or two. For those of you familiar with GW-Ada/Ed-Mac, there
is _no_ change in functionality. On the other hand, thanks to Fabrizio's
great work, there are a few substantive changes:

(1) the 68020/30/40 version is speeded up by a significant factor (4 or so).

(2) a version compiled for native PowerPC (this is FAST!)

(3) a version compiled for 68000 (this is SLOW and requires System 7,
    but it is a way of getting Ada going, say, a Mac SE)

(4) a few bits and pieces and bugs fixed.

We are all grateful to Fabrizio for doing this work. The Free Software 
principle rides again!

For those of you not familar with this system at all, I'll post an
announcement in my next message.

Mike Feldman
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