From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Macintosh Ada95 Development Systems...?
Date: 1997/01/25
Date: 1997-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5celte$88g@felix.seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 853866956.23153@dejanews.com
In article <853866956.23153@dejanews.com>, <amas@lhr-sys.dhl.com> wrote:
>I don't know the differences between Ada95 and other variations, though
>the if you follow the following link you should find an ada compiler,
>known as Adaed for the Macintosh:
> ftp://ftp.gwu.edu/pub/ada/gw-adaed/mac/
>I used it some time ago, though I have no idea if it has gone through any
>changes. Download and try!
This is a nice little system for learning Ada 83. It runs on "small"
Macs and has a Mac-like IDE. It is based on NYU's Ada/Ed-C, a fast
version of the original Ada/Ed. At GW, we ported the compiler to the Mac
and added the IDE.
No further development is being done on this; NYU's Ada/Ed team became the
NYU GNAT team and subsequently the core of ACT. And at GW, we are on to other
things.
I am a member of the team responsible for the MachTen CodeBuilder port
of GNAT. CodeBuilder is available (for PowerMacs) at $99. You get
a nice, full Unix that runs as a Mac application (so you can run your
other Mac stuff in other windows), along with all the GNU languages
(C, C++, Objective C, GNAT, etc.) and other goodies.
My role in the project was testing and developing documentation and
examples. I used the system heavily and really came to like it. Tenon
has done a nice piece of work! (I have no formal relationship to Tenon.)
>
>Andre-John
>
>P.S. Writing an ada plug-in for MW Codewarrior certainly sounds like an
>interesting idea for someone who want to improve the support for the
>language on the Macintosh.
Writing an Ada compiler (or any language of its type) is a BIG project.
Definitely not for novices or 1-person teams. A good _port_ of GNAT
to a new platform is a person-year's work, and all the GNU stuff was
designed to be ported.
Mike Feldman
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-12 0:00 Macintosh Ada95 Development Systems...? "Fred H. Turner, III"
1997-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-01-13 0:00 ` Dr. John B. Matthews
1997-01-21 0:00 ` Dana Miller
1997-01-21 0:00 ` amas
1997-01-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman [this message]
1997-01-26 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1997-01-26 0:00 ` Jim Hopper
1997-01-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-01-27 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1997-01-28 0:00 ` Laurent Gasser
1997-01-29 0:00 ` Jim Hopper
1997-01-28 0:00 ` Jim Hopper
1997-01-26 0:00 ` William C Brennan
1997-01-27 0:00 ` Anita Holmgren
1997-01-22 0:00 ` amas
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1997-01-21 0:00 Anita Holmgren
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