Ada 95 for the BeBox ?

Ada 95 for the BeBox ?

[Thomas Hedlund]

Does annyone know if there exist an Ada 95 compiler for the
BeOS/BeBox. Or maybe if there are some planes, GNAT maybe ?

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Re: Ada 95 for the BeBox ?

[Theodore E. Dennison]

Thomas Hedlund wrote:
> 
> Does annyone know if there exist an Ada 95 compiler for the
> BeOS/BeBox. Or maybe if there are some planes, GNAT maybe ?

That's a new one on me. FOLDOC doesn't even know what BeOS is ("The
nearest terms alphabetically are Bend Over, Here It Comes Again and
BER")

The full list of validated Ada compilers is at -
http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/Resources/Compilers/Compilers.html

You could always look through it yourself.

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Re: Ada 95 for the BeBox ?

[Thomas Hedlund]

In article <319877A9.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com>,
"Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> wrote:
>Thomas Hedlund wrote:
>> 
>> Does annyone know if there exist an Ada 95 compiler for the
>> BeOS/BeBox. Or maybe if there are some planes, GNAT maybe ?

>That's a new one on me. FOLDOC doesn't even know what BeOS is ("The
>nearest terms alphabetically are Bend Over, Here It Comes Again and
>BER")
------8<-------
Well, Be Inc. is the company responsible for the name :-)
The Be Box is what this fairly new company has put together in the
last couple of years since it was founded by Jean-Louis Gassee, former
product chief at Apple. It's not an apple though. It could be descibed
as a mix of an SMP PC and a Next, only cheaper. The design can have
between 2 and 8 PowerPC's (the initial model has 2 PPC 603) and
besides that every thing that's used is standard PC components.
The mainboard has ISA/PCI-slots, IDE/SCSI-interface and PC keaboard
and mouse is used. The OS (BeOS) is said to be very good at
multi-tasking/threading and that it's a banger at real-time stuff,
even when loaded with heavy tasks. What I understand it's quite
Unix-like with a bash command shell and many GNU stuff  have been
ported by the company. The OS of course has a nice graphical GUI (not 
X). I've heard that Linux is being ported right now. 
All programming is done with C++ (bundled). 
And now to the question if there are any rumours  about Ada for the
box . I'm not in any way speaking for Be, I don't even have the thing
yet. I'm ceriously thinking about getting one but I would not like
beeing stuck with a computer with only 1 language. I think Ada would
be a very good language for this OS. There have been questions about
Ada for BeOS in comp.sys.be but no answers.


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