First Release of GW-GNAT. Happy Birthday Ada!

First Release of GW-GNAT. Happy Birthday Ada!

[Michael Feldman]

GW-GNAT First Release, December 1994

Prof. Michael B. Feldman
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994-5919 (voice)
(202) 994-5296 (fax)
mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet)

December 10 is the birth date of Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace,
assistant to Charles Babbage. Ada was born on this date in 1815,
and it is for her that the Ada programming language is named.

In celebration of Ada's birthday, and of the recent delivery of the
revised Ada standard to ISO headquarters for publication just after
the start of 1995, the Ada Educational Software Group at The George
Washington University, Washington, DC, is pleased to announce the 
first release of GW-GNAT, a multi-file program editor and development 
environment for the DOS version of GNAT.

GNAT stands for GNU-NYU Ada 95 Translator, and is being developed by
a team at New York University and elsewhere. GNAT is a compiler for
Ada 95, which generates machine code using the GNU multiplatform
code generator. GNAT is not yet complete, but in its current state
compiles most of Ada 95. The incompletenesses are well documented
and GNAT is already being widely used for Ada 95 development.

GW-GNAT is a revision of GW-Ada/Ed, a "Turbo-like" development 
environment released in 1993 under the GNU General Public License.
Developed by Michael B. Feldman, Arthur Vargas Lopes and Charles W. 
Kann at GWU, GW-Ada/Ed is in current educational use in many universities, 
companies, and government agencies around the world. The revised version, 
GW-GNAT, retains most of the useful features of the original development
environment, but incorporates GNAT compilation and binding.

GW-GNAT is free software; a later version will be released under the
GNU GPL with full source code. The first release is available by 
anonymous ftp from the following locations:

Public Ada Library (PAL), wuarchive.wustl.edu, 
  directory languages/ada/compiler/gnat/contrib/gwu

New York University (NYU), cs.nyu.edu, directory pub/gnat/contrib/gwu

George Washington University (GWU), ftp.gwu.edu, directory pub/ada/gw-gnat

Note that GWU is not yet distributing GNAT in a "package" with the 
environment; GNAT is available from PAL and NYU. Once you have installed
GNAT, install GW-GNAT to run it from the editor.