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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b4cb246b8d71447 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Kenneth W. Sodemann" Subject: Re: I want to use ADA - Turbo Pascal/Delphi guy here Date: 1998/02/27 Message-ID: <6d7noe$lkq$1@news3.alpha.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 329330234 References: <6d0cdf$cnb$1@snow.b1.justsystem.co.jp> <6d29lo$gld$3@news2.alpha.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote in message ... ><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. -- Ken Sodemann stufflehead@bigfoot.com http://www.pcii.net/~stuffel Go 23, 24, 36, & ABE. Go Pack!!