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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE,
	MSGID_SHORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!keele!csd35
From: csd35@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: I need to find a PD or nearly free ADA compiler for a sequent symmetry
Message-ID: <610@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Sep 90 12:45:12 GMT
Organization: University of Keele, England
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Funnily enough, I thought this would be under 'commonly asked questions'
but it doesn't seem to be.

For our course on abstract data types here at Keele, we use a virtually
free ada compiler from York University.  It does have limitations but
it does a good enough job.  The problem is that this course needs
to be taught on a sequent symmetry next year and York University only
supply binaries and don't supply them for the symmtery.

What I need to find out is what cheap compilers are out there and where
they are.  They don't need to be fully ada complient and this course
teaches about the data types and not specifically about the ada language.
If the compiler has deviations from the ada spec. it would be useful
to have a list of the differences.

I know about Gada (from the gnu people) but I haven't heard of its
current status and whether it is in a good enough state to risk
a teaching course on it.

Thanks for your help.
-- 
  ______    JANET :jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs     Jonathan Knight,
    /       BITNET:jonathan%cs.kl.ac.uk@ukacrl Department of Computer Science
   / _   __ other :jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk     University of Keele, Keele,
(_/ (_) / / UUCP  :...!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan      Staffordshire.  ST5 5BG.  U.K.