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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9ba7735f53257835,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,9ba7735f53257835,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,9ba7735f53257835,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-10 09:57:20 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Subject: First Release of GW-GNAT. Happy Birthday Ada! Date: 10 Dec 1994 12:28:36 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3ccog4$cpu@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:8486 comp.software-eng:10353 comp.edu:2393 Date: 1994-12-10T12:28:36-05:00 List-Id: 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.