Re: Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic)

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <1996Oct18.075102.1@eisner>,
Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@eisner.decus.org> wrote:

>For MachTen, yes, but what was under discussion was a (solidly)
>rumored future Tenon product which would subset those MachTen
>capabilities which are particularly used for GNAT.  Those dealing
>with Tenon in that regard have properly not published exact details
>of the exact nature of the subsetting, since that is Tenon's right
>when they announce their offering.

I do _not_ speak for Tenon; I will try to clarify what I can.

I think you misinterpreted what I and others have said. The new
release (at a significantly lower price than "full" MachTen)
will - as I understand it - focus on MachTen as a _development
system_, rather than, say, a vehicle for building an Internet 
server. 

This has nothing and everything to do with GNAT - it's
not Ada-specific at all, but will surely help to break the Ada/Mac
deadlock.
>
>Those of us who are not "wanting a Unix interface" and only accept
>one as a last resort certainly see things in a different light :-)

Well, in the short run, a UN*X interface is what you'll get.:-)

REPEAT: But you can create honest-to-goodness, double-clickable,
Toolbox-using, Mac apps, just as with MPW or CodeWarrior. 

No, there won;t be a new Mac-style editor with "compile" on some menu, 
but you can certainly use your favorite Mac text editor (BBEdit, for 
example). Keeping your source(s) in one or more BBEdit windows,
and MachTen up in another window, and typing 

"gnatmake foo"

is not _so_ terrible. It's not CodeWarrior, but it's what the     
available resources could provide.
>
>Larry Kilgallen

Mike Feldman