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From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Decent ADA compiler on a Mac
Date: 21 Mar 1995 11:35:20 -0600
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In article <1995Mar21.095028.9432@eisner>,
Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software <kilgallen@eisner.decus.org> wrote:
>At the present time, I doubt that MetroWerks would be interested in Ada,
>since they have absolutely no interest in supporting Standard Pascal --
>the owner indicated at San Francisco MacWorld that their only reason for
>adding object Pascal (Macintosh style) features in an upcoming release
>is due to the existing installed base using that dialect.
>

That's quite possible, but I also know that MetroWerks was being
courted heavily to do an Ada95 implementation several months ago.  I
have the impression that they, like most other compiler companies,
would support the language if they felt the market was there.  Kind
of a chicken vs. egg problem :-/


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