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From: nreitzel@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu (Norman L. Reitzel   )
Subject: Re: GNAT 3.03 for OS/2
Date: 1996/03/25
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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.


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   Norman L. Reitzel, Jr.       |    "When you live beside the graveyard,
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   Blue Water Ventures, dba.    |                     Russian Proverb