* 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 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* 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: 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.) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the World-Wide Web: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Illegitimi non carborundum." (Don't let the bastards grind you down.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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