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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9923b1c3be80099b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,9923b1c3be80099b X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public From: lga@sma.ch (Laurent Gasser) Subject: Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic) Date: 1996/10/08 Message-ID: <53d992INNnp@maz4.sma.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 187986062 distribution: world references: organization: Swiss Meterological Institute keywords: Mac GNU MPW reply-to: lga@sma.ch newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Well, in my unsignificant opinion, the Mac is certainly a good opportunity for Ada. Most of the original system was written in Pascal, but new devlopments are now in C or even C++ (QuickDraw GX,...) The devlopers faithful to Pascal could be an easy win to Ada 95 (Symantech has clearly said that Pascal was no longer one of their goal, Metrowerks diversifies like hell seemingly without investing a lot in Pascal). Good news: * GNAT has been ported to Mac (Thank you) but requires MachTen. * GCC 2.7.2 for MPW is progressing. I recently received a mail from Stan Shebs on gnu-mac@cygnus.com telling us that a pre-release version could be found on ftp Cygnus site. >I haven't gotten a lot of feedback on the previous release, but have >pressed on and put out a new one, again in private/mac on ftp.cygnus.com: > >-rw-rw-r-- 1 shebs cygnus 25394845 Oct 2 17:30 pmac-960930-src.tar.gz >-rw-rw-r-- 1 shebs cygnus 4411902 Oct 2 17:28 pmac-960930.cpt.hqx It looks like Mac is attracting some interest from third parties. -- Laurent Gasser (lga@sma.ch) Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions.