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From: Ferretwoman@worldnet.att.net (Linda Matlack)
Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR AN ADA COMPILER
Date: 1996/10/21
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Date: 1996-10-21T00:00:00+00:00
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schizophonic@iol.it wrote:


>>Many Ada courses all over the country (including the one I teach) use
>>GNAT. It is full Ada 95, and will correspond fine to any Ada 95 text
>>you are using. If you are learning Ada 83, then (a) complain to your
>>instructor about obsolete languages and (b) use GNAT anyway with the
>>-gnat83 switch. This does not provide perfect Ada 83 semantics, but it
>>will likely be good enough for your use.

>I will complain, if is the case.

We are using the Feldman/Koffman Ada 95 book, but learning Ada 83
because our school won't update the computers to Ada 95.  Talk about
confusing!  We are complaining!