From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aafef513f04e2f88 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: Macintosh Ada95 Development Systems...? Date: 1997/01/25 Message-ID: <5celte$88g@felix.seas.gwu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 212260234 references: <853866956.23153@dejanews.com> organization: George Washington University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <853866956.23153@dejanews.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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) http://www.seas.gwu.edu/faculty/mfeldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pork is all that money the government gives the other guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the WWW: www.acm.org/sigada/education or www.adahome.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------