From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic)
Date: 1996/10/21
Date: 1996-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54ge45$5j1@felix.seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Oct17.074956.1@eisner
In article <1996Oct17.074956.1@eisner>,
Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@eisner.decus.org> wrote:
>> I could not agree more. Perhaps, if the MachTen CodeBuilder release
>> is a big seller and it's apparent that many people are buying it
>> mostly for GNAT, that will be the necessary impetus. Dunno...
>I had not realized there would be any other reason to buy it.
>Are there capabilities other than Ada that would drive sales,
>or that Tenon might be disposed to believe are driving sales
>of that future product ?
I guess that depends on whether you think it's a good idea to have
a pretty complete BSD-ish system on your Mac that lets you run UN*X
and MacOS side by side. I can think of a number of reasons, especially
for folks with experience in both Mac and UN*X (in school, for instance):
- lots of nice tools and utilities, especially on the Ported Apps
disk, but also within the standard MachTen; true, these are
command line utilities, but what the heck - if they're useful,
they're useful.
- app development for apps that will eventually run on a "big"
UN*X box, but could be developed on a Mac first. This is a big plus
for GNAT, of course, but it's not limited to Ada. The relative ease
of setting up GNU cross-compilers makes the Mac a nice cheap
multiplatform development box.
- studying UN*X in school, would like to have it at home, already
have a Mac at home. Yes, MkLinux is coming along, but as has been
said here ad nauseam, it only supports a few Mac models at this
point and does not run alongside MacOS.
- etc. etc.
If the price is right (I dunno what the final prices will be), I think
this is a big win for Ada but also for the more general developer market.
The lack of a Mac GUI on the developer tools is the only disadvantage
I can see, and not everybody thinks that's a disadvantage.
Mike Feldman
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-27 0:00 Ada to byte-code compiler works as advertised Mike Stark
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Vince Del Vecchio
1996-10-03 0:00 ` New version of AppletMagic (was Re: Ada to byte-code compiler ...) Vince Del Vecchio
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Ada on the Mac (was: AppletMagic stuff) Michael Feldman
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Hosting Ada on Mac (Was: Ada on the Mac) Laurent Gasser
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Ada on the Mac (was: AppletMagic stuff) Robert Dewar
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic) Laurent Gasser
1996-10-08 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Laurent Gasser
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Stan Shebs
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-10 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-17 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-17 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Steve Wall
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Tom Halliley
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Jim Easterbrook
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Anita Holmgren
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Tom Halliley
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Michael Feldman [this message]
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-08 0:00 ` New version of AppletMagic (was Re: Ada to byte-code compiler Dr Paul Gorman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Ada on the Mac (was: AppletMagic stuff) Stan Shebs
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