Re: I want to use ADA - Turbo Pascal/Delphi guy here

["Kenneth W. Sodemann" <stufflehead@bigfoot.com>]

Robert Dewar wrote in message ...
><<On the cheaper side (as in free), GNAT is a good compiler, and I have
heard
>that there may be some IDE's for it, though I have not used them, and I
>would not expect them to be anywhere near as nice as Delphi's front end.
>>>
>
>As the Aonix site is quick to inform you, GNAT is not necessarily free,

True, but I was assuming this particular person was not going to want to
enter into a support agreement. :)

>since to use it with support can actually cost more than using the Aonix
>compiler. However, freely available versions of both GNAT and the Aonix
>compiler are downloadable at no cost. The public version of GNAT is
>very close to a previous commercial version of GNAT, and is a full-language
>implementation of Ada 95 with no restrictions. It is unsupported, but for
>student use it is certainly quite usable.

I would like to add to this that as a paying Aonix customer, I have been
fairly satisfied (an impression I may not have left with my first post,
however I was trying more to be completely honest that to be overly
glowing).  However, I have had contact with several folks who have tried
both the free version of OA, and the public version of GNAT.  The only real
negative I have heard about the public version of GNAT is that a couple of
folks ran into setup snags.  OTOH, I have heard more than a few complaints
about the free OA version (the biggest complaint being that the debugger
doesn't work properly (which was fixed to some degree in version 7.1.1, but
I have not heard of that making it into the free version yet)).

Also, thanks for the info on the IDE's.  I will pass that info on to some
folks I know who I do not believe read this newsgroup, but do use GNAT
casually.

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