Re: Ada for the Mac

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In article <1996Sep10.124132.1@eisner>
kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> If Ada on MacOS were wildly successful, I would hope someone like
> ThomSoft (or whatever they are called by they) could see their way
> to developing a Macintosh Ada which did _not_ look like Unix to the
> developer.

Larry, 

the really nice thing about machten is that you can mix unix and macos
elements to suit yourself.  for example i am working on version of
gnatmake that looks a lot like mpw's commando dialogs by building a
macos interface to a unix app (gnatmake).  when i get it done i am not
sure what the difference in look would be between a mpw Ada compiler
and a Machten unix compiler.  

if you want it to look like codewarrior and have a project manager etc,
thats real doable as well.  There exists software for machten (the
author has offered to make the source frealy available) that allows you
to mix apple events and unix remote procedure calls so you can control
unix apps from apple script applications like codewarriors toolserver
interface.  with more work you can write a codewarrior type IDE that
controls the gnat compiler.  its not the platform of the compiler thats
important its how much work is put into developing the IDE. 

if you want it to look like MPW or codewarrior start coding ;-) 
Seriously i will be happy to help anyone who wants to give this a try!

best jim