From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,673b700f97953d0f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: Starting out - good compiler for DOS? Date: 1996/08/04 Message-ID: <4u3qg0$hac@felix.seas.gwu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 172099358 references: <4u2l6q$lr9@morgana.netcom.net.uk> organization: George Washington University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4u2l6q$lr9@morgana.netcom.net.uk>, Adrian Urquhart wrote: >Hello to all > >I'm currently looking at Ada as a replacement/alternative to C++, but >getting hold of a compiler isn't easy! I can get EZ2LOAD from lots of >FTP sites, but with my 14,400 modem it's going to take a long time... True enough, but unless your net services are VERY expensive, a download is cheaper than a CD or other means, if all you are getting is ez2load. The CD, at $39.95 (I don;t know the UK price) is a very good deal, but it's got LOTS more than just ez2load. >I found a shareware program called PALLADA on CompuServe, but it won't >produce an executable because the authors don't have a licence to >distribute part of FlashTek's extender (or else I'm driving it wrong). Never heard of that one - can you describe it more? Is it in fact Ada? >What do you suggest? I'm using a PC with DOS as the target, and want >something which will produce .EXE files. Is there an easy way in the >UK to get hold of the Walnut Creek Ada CD Rom? Write info@cdrom.com. Shouldn;t be hard to send one to the UK. Be sure you get the July edition, not the Feb. one! Their WWW site is at http://www.cdrom.com > >TIA Hope this helps. Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) http://www.seas.gwu.edu/faculty/mfeldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pork is all that money the government gives the other guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WWW: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ or http://info.acm.org/sigada/education ------------------------------------------------------------------------