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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!claris!peirce From: peirce@claris.UUCP (Michael Peirce) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Compilers for the Apple Macintosh OS Keywords: Ada, compilers, Macintosh Message-ID: <5309@claris.UUCP> Date: 12 Sep 88 17:08:55 GMT References: <365@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> <581@afit-ab.arpa> Reply-To: peirce@claris.UUCP (Michael Peirce) Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA List-Id: In article <581@afit-ab.arpa> wbralick@icc.UUCP (William A. Bralick Jr.) writes: >In article <365@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> eberard@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Edward Berard) writes: >>I happen to enjoy using Apple Macintoshes as software engineering >>workstations. I would also like to do everything I can to encourage >>Ada compiler vendors to consider the Macintosh as a viable platform >>for an Ada compiler. Currently, Meridian Software is the only Ada ... >> >I thought that John Sculley didn't want to sell Mac's to the DoD. Come on. Just because Ada has some roots in the DoD doesn't mean that that's all it's good for! My experience with Ada was in a factory automation environment that had nothing to do with DoD. Ada was a good language for doing seriously designed systems in. I'd love to see Ada on the Macintosh since that's the machine I now work on (before was using DEC's Vax/VMS Ada). The Mac could use some serious software engineering oriented compilers and tools! -- michael