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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,577c9f9c0cdd76d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing Date: 1999/11/02 Message-ID: <7vnddp$ck6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 543592517 References: <7vbtof$de9$1@oceanite.cybercable.fr> <38199224_3@news1.prserv.net> <3819A44A.9F5E6B97@maths.unine.ch> <7vhh53$81f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <381DE427.4A04F864@maths.unine.ch> <7vml31$pk0$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <381F0B97.8DBCFFC8@maths.unine.ch> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x33.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Nov 02 19:18:22 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-11-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <381F0B97.8DBCFFC8@maths.unine.ch>, > The extra $ for Mac is a bit a handicap and a (stupid) > way to discourage programmation (not Ada specific). That's upside down, it is not a matter of discouraging people, but rather that no one has the time or resources to encourage them more actively on the Mac, which is a pity. Gautier, if you think it's enough of a pity to be worth it, why don't you create the MacOS port of GNAT. It's a fair job, but put it this way: I think you have a better chance of completing this than Nick Roberts does of completing his optimizing Ada compiler and associated operating system written in Ada :-) > In addition, these programming environments are highly > uncompatible between them. > > Again, correct me if I'm wrong! I really don't know what you are talking about here. Clearly a GNAT port needs some command interpretor capability if it is to be a full capability port. > > I did not realize that the Lineo DR-DOS was a free software > > product, under what license is the source code released? > > IIRC for individuals & education it's free. However it's > not open-source (they released the kernel source for a > time)... Then it is not at ALL the same thing as what I had in mind, you are using a totally different definition of free (gratuit) than what I meant when I said that GNAT+GNU/Linux is the only totally free (libre) Ada 95 solution. By your solution there are other possibilities, actually much more interesting than Lineo DR-DOS, which is pretty ancient stuff of no interest to most people at this stage. For example, personal use of Solaris x86 is free (gratuit), and that's a very nice operating system. > > Are you speaking from experience? > > Before moving to PC, the computing science department here > was screwed with all these MPW, CodeWarrior & Co, licenses, > command shells being not compatible between their > sub-sub-versions MPW and CodeWarrior have nothing to do whatsoever with what we are talking about, so even if your CS dept did manage to get screwed up with these (don't know why, never had any trouble with MPW myself, which was what the old Alsys compiler used), it is totally irrelevant to the discussion. Neither of these products have anything to do with Ada 95 or GNAT. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.