* ADA95 COMPILER for an SGI Workstation?
@ 1994-12-30 20:09 M. Bersohn
1994-12-30 21:24 ` David Weller
1994-12-30 22:19 ` Michael Feldman
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From: M. Bersohn @ 1994-12-30 20:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dear Ada-fans,
My best information is that there are no ADA95(aka ADA9x)
compilers available for SGI workstations. If anybody knows
of such a compiler could they kindly email me about where
to buy it?
Thanks in advance.
BTW,I am neither for nor against ADA; I just want to
try it out to have an at least somewhat informed opinion.
Sincerely yours,
Malcolm Bersohn
mbersohn@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
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* Re: ADA95 COMPILER for an SGI Workstation?
1994-12-30 20:09 ADA95 COMPILER for an SGI Workstation? M. Bersohn
@ 1994-12-30 21:24 ` David Weller
1994-12-30 22:19 ` Michael Feldman
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From: David Weller @ 1994-12-30 21:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <1994Dec30.200903.29267@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>,
M. Bersohn <mbersohn@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>Dear Ada-fans,
> My best information is that there are no ADA95(aka ADA9x)
>compilers available for SGI workstations. If anybody knows
>of such a compiler could they kindly email me about where
>to buy it?
> Thanks in advance.
> BTW,I am neither for nor against ADA; I just want to
>try it out to have an at least somewhat informed opinion.
Holy smokes! You could have knocked me over with a feather on this
one! SGI is the STRONGEST supporter of Ada95 -- they had a large
demonstration booth showing off their Ada WOrkshop product. Awesome
is an understatement. They even demonstrated interoperability with
C++ by showing that you can inherit from a C++ class (and C++ classes
can inherit from tagged types in Ada95).
I think you can e-mail Dave McAllister (mcallister@wpd.sgi.com) for
more info. SGI would be HAPPY to talk to you about their Ada95
solutions :-)
--
Frustrated with C/C++, Pascal, Fortran? Ada95 _might_ be for you!
For all sorts of interesting Ada95 tidbits, run the command:
"finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.)
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* Re: ADA95 COMPILER for an SGI Workstation?
1994-12-30 20:09 ADA95 COMPILER for an SGI Workstation? M. Bersohn
1994-12-30 21:24 ` David Weller
@ 1994-12-30 22:19 ` Michael Feldman
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Feldman @ 1994-12-30 22:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <1994Dec30.200903.29267@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>,
M. Bersohn <mbersohn@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>Dear Ada-fans,
> My best information is that there are no ADA95(aka ADA9x)
>compilers available for SGI workstations. If anybody knows
>of such a compiler could they kindly email me about where
>to buy it?
While it is true that you cannot yet _buy_ an Ada 95 for SGI boxes,
you can get one free, as there exists a GNAT port for these machines.
Grab it from cs.nyu.edu, directory pub/gnat.
SGI is very interested in Ada 95, and has put a fair amount of effort
(and, I am told, a fair amount of money) into getting that GNAT port
not only in good shape for its own sake, but interfacing it nicely to
their C and C++ libraries.
Thre are relatively few Ada 95 compilers available at this point, though
several have been announced. From what I can tell, for those Unix boxes
for which GNAT ports exist, GNAT is ahead of the others in functionality,
by a long shot.
The largest piece of Ada 95 not fully implemented by GNAT on all platforms
is tasking and protected types; as it happens, tasking is in very good
shape in the SGI version (the SGI folks like tasking).
Hope this helps.
Cheers, Happy New Year.
Mike Feldman
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