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From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Flame on Verdix, Any other good Unix compilers???
Keywords: ada compiler
Message-ID: <56507@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 90 15:26:53 GMT
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In article <2052@cod.NOSC.MIL> sampson@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Charles H. Sampson) writes:
|     I've been very impressed with the IBM-PC version of the Alsys compiler.
|I've never used a Unix version but, knowing the way they keep all incarna-
|tions of the compiler in step, I would expect it to be equally solid.
|
|                            Charlie Sampson

I remember once using the Alsys hosted on Apollo and getting the error
message "Uncaught Ada exception at xxxx".  I eventually figured out
that this was the compiler's clever and informative way of telling me
I had an undeclared identifier.

James Thiele -- microsoft!jamesth