From: nreitzel@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu (Norman L. Reitzel )
Subject: Re: GNAT 3.03 for OS/2
Date: 1996/03/25
Date: 1996-03-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4j6vlu$l0i@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4j6l1i$3jk@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu
In article <4j6l1i$3jk@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> tojst1+@pitt.edu (Tore Joergensen) writes:
>Dale Pontius (pontius@twonky.btv.ibm.com) wrote:
>: The OS/2 world is rather language-poor. Outside of C/C++, there are a
>: few commercial Pascal extensions, a few Modula-2's, a Modula-3, maybe
>: Eiffel soon, etc. As for workstation (AIX) <--> OS/2 portability,
>: there are only a few options, and Ada may well be the best of them.
>
>There are some compilers in addition to the C/C++ and Pascal/Modula-x :-).
>After a quick look in the Indelible-Blue catalog, I found:
>IBM VisualAge Cobol, IBM VisualAge Smalltalk, PL/1, APL2, Fortran 77,
>CA-Realizer and of course several REXX implementations. If you make
>GUI programs, I think VisualAge Smalltalk gives you best portability
>between OS/2 and AIX (and Windows) for the moment. Of course I would
>like to see faster releases of GNAT for OS/2 as well :-).
Don't forget Java. The version 1.0 early release is available (upon
(free) registry) from ncc.hursley.ibm.com. The compiler is fast (reminds
me of UCSD Pascal, actually), and though the runtime has bugs, it's still
in it's infancy.
--
Norman L. Reitzel, Jr. | "When you live beside the graveyard,
nreitzel@lonestar.utsa.edu | you can't cry for every funeral."
Blue Water Ventures, dba. | Russian Proverb
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-03-22 0:00 GNAT 3.03 for OS/2 Dale Pontius
1996-03-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-22 0:00 ` GNAT 3.03 for RS/6000 AIX 3.2 (was: GNAT 3.03 for OS/2) David J. Bacon
1996-03-25 0:00 ` GNAT 3.03 for OS/2 Dale Pontius
1996-03-25 0:00 ` John Howard
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
1996-03-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-27 0:00 ` John Norcross {83602}
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Norman L. Reitzel [this message]
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1996-03-29 0:00 John Howard
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-31 0:00 Kees de Lezenne Coulande
1996-04-01 0:00 Simon Johnston
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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