Re: Building an Ada compiler

[lga@unconfigured.xvnews.domain (Laurent Gasser)]

In article <4r4idi$egp@eri1.erinet.com>, James E. Hopper <jhopper@erinet.com> writes:  
> I know how to use machten to build a stand alone gcc that can work
> with other IDE's like the GW AdaED environment or perhaps as a plug in
> to metrowerks but this gnat would not be able to build itself without
> much more work than i feel like throwing at it.  but unless someone
> feels like funding this i am going to concentrate on making the
> Machten compile and tools as good as they can be. i see issues like
> moving it to another IDE as distractions of the fundamental issue of
> providing a useful compiler.
> 
> I would also point out that a couple of Ada vendor who i have haunted
> over the last few years to do a mac port of their commercial compilers
> told me they are watching the machten port to see how many people use
> it as a gauge of the interest in Ada in the mac world.
> 
> jim

I see the effort made by your team as the most important: having a working
Ada95 compiler generating executable on Mac.  Improving the usability can
be done by users later on.

I am trying to suggest to my co-workers how good it could be to work with
Ada.  And some have already listened to me :-)

On the note of IDE, maybe we could get rid of having a CLI by using the
scripting facilities (Apple Events) of MacOS.  So the compiler would be
a faceless background application receiving line commands and translating
the code in the background.  But once more, your work clearly has a higher
priority.  

Where and when could we know more about Tenon's GNAT product?
-- 
Laurent Gasser (lga@sma.ch)
Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions.