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,ba4b51c1acd0cb55 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: Does anyone have Meridian for windows?? if so help please. Date: 1996/09/24 Message-ID: <529kl2$2j0@felix.seas.gwu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185113976 references: <527ie9$4ol@news.us.net> organization: George Washington University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <527ie9$4ol@news.us.net>, Michael W. Hall wrote: >A friend of mine gave me an Ada compiler called "Meridian compiler for >windows version 2.0" it came with a book he used in college. He only had >the disks, but not the book. So I called meridian looking for >documentation and was told to call mcgraw hill and then some other >company after that who now sells the book. I made such a fuss over it, >they ended up sending me a dos version and its documentation for free, >telling me that the windows version was no longer distributed or >supported. When Meridian was purchased by Verdix, which then merged with Rational, this product disappeared from the product line. See below. > >So now I'm back where I began looking for documentation on the windows >version. Does anyone have this documentation? Please email me if you do. >I would like to get a copy if possible. >If not can someone give me some istructions on programming ada in >windows. it seems that things such as text_io are done differently and I >do not seem to know what I am doing as far as getting things to come up >in a window. Programming for Windows is different from programming for ordinary console IO. With that particular compiler, you need to "with" a package called WinCon (Windows Console) which does reasonably OK Text_IO. I think you're better off going over to Ada 95, though, where there are several compilers that are actively being developed and supported. One is GNAT, which is _free_; if you want to write real Windows (95/NT) programs, you'll need the $50. GNAT CD from LabTek, which includes licensed copies of the necessary Microsoft libraries. See www.gnat.com for details. Another way to go is the Personal Edition of ObjectAda from Thomson Software, which has a very "visual" IDE and has all you need to construct windows apps (or console apps via Text_IO). Commercial price is, I think, $99. There's a somewhat more expensive version that also includes a Java byte code back end. Pretty good blurbs and links for all of these is at http://www.acm.org/sigada/education. Only the educational prices are shown, but the features lists are correct. Further info might be available at www.thomsoft.com; in any case, that page gives phone and e-mail contacts. It's too bad Rational deep-sixed all its "low-end" compilers, but that was their business choice. In any event, Ada 95 stuff is very good and getting better, and the price is right. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------