Re: A Pascal Subset of Ada (was: Why Ada is Failing Socially)

[ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)]

In article <1133.2868ee55@vger.nsu.edu>, g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University) writes:
> I never thought about the I/O stuff.  I had always felt that SubAda == Pascal
> could be done.  You might have wanted to name it   "Ada--"

With all this discussion about wanting a small cheapo version of Ada for
the educational environment, I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned
SmallAda.  Here's part of a posting from last year:

    From mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu@munnari.oz Tue Sep 11 13:20:16 1990
    Path: goanna!munnari.oz.au!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman
    From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
    Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
    Subject: Announcing (free) distribution of SmallAda 1990
    Message-ID: <2107@sparko.gwu.edu>
    Date: 11 Sep 90 03:20:16 GMT
    Reply-To: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
    Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C.
    Lines: 205

    F R E E  S O F T W A R E  A N N O U N C E M E N T
    SmallAda 1990 for Apple Macintosh and IBM-PC family computers
    ...
    SmallAda is a compiler/interpreter for a part of the Ada language, namely
    the "Pascal subset" plus the Ada tasking support. It is not intended
    ever to be a full Ada compiler, rather a vehicle for teaching, learning,
    and experimenting with concurrent programming. The compiler is quite
    fast, producing P-code which is then interpreted by the interpreter.

    Both the Mac and DOS versions are integrated systems, complete with editor
    and window-oriented runtime monitor. The Mac editor is like any Mac ASCII
    editor, supporting cut/copy/paste and the like. The Mac version is Mac-like.

    The DOS version editor is Turbo-Pascal or WordStar-like, including pull-
    down menus for editor and compiler commands. No mouse support is provided
    at this time.

Price: $0.  Is there something wrong with SmallAda, or what?

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I agree with Jim Giles about many of the deficiencies of present UNIX.