Ada compiler for the Amiga???

Ada compiler for the Amiga???

[Rick Morneau]

Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
Reply-To: mnu@nairobi.inel.gov

I recently heard a rumor that an Ada compiler would soon
be available for the Amiga. Is this rumor true? Any info
would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: ADA compiler for the Amiga?

[Skip Sauls]

In article <snughton.695396537@unix1.tcd.ie> snughton@unix1.tcd.ie (Shane Naugh
ton.) writes:
>While on the subject of ADA compilers, has anyone ever heard
>of one being available for the Amiga??
>I somehow doubt it myself, but you'd never know....
>
>E-mail me or follow up to this article.
>
I asked the same question a while back and got the response that at least one,
but maybe two developers were working on Ada for the Amiga.  Oxxi, was one of
the companies that were mentioned.  I too would love to have Ada on my Amiga,
but I am not exactly hopeful.  Part of the problem is that many Amiga owners
are "cheap" and there may be no market for an Ada compiler, which tends to
be rather expensive.  Oh well, one can only hope.

>Cheers,
>
>Shane.

Skip Sauls
skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu

Re: ADA compiler for the Amiga?

[Jeffrey M. Schweiger]

In article <snughton.695396537@unix1.tcd.ie> snughton@unix1.tcd.ie (Shane Naugh
ton.) writes:
>While on the subject of ADA compilers, has anyone ever heard
>of one being available for the Amiga??
>I somehow doubt it myself, but you'd never know....
>
>E-mail me or follow up to this article.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Shane.

There are, at present, no validated Ada compilers for the Amiga, though there
have been rumors in the past of one in development.  At this time, though,
I know of no active development of an Amiga Ada compiler.  There is an Ada
syntax checker for the Amiga on Fred Fish disk 154.

Jeff Schweiger

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Re: ADA compiler for the Amiga?

[Travers Naran]

skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:

>I asked the same question a while back and got the response that at least one,
>but maybe two developers were working on Ada for the Amiga.  Oxxi, was one of
>the companies that were mentioned.  I too would love to have Ada on my Amiga,
>but I am not exactly hopeful.  Part of the problem is that many Amiga owners
>are "cheap" and there may be no market for an Ada compiler, which tends to
>be rather expensive.  Oh well, one can only hope.

"cheap"? Oh yes, we all can go right out and buy $1200 compilers. :-) Not even
IBM users can afford that. Those compilers are ususally sold to corporations
and organizations that use them. And the Amiga is supposedly on a no-bid status
with SDI researchers so I'm sure there is a definite market for ADA compilers.
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Re: ADA compiler for the Amiga?

[Michael Feldman]

In article <snughton.695396537@unix1.tcd.ie> snughton@unix1.tcd.ie (Shane Naugh
ton.) writes:
>While on the subject of ADA compilers, has anyone ever heard
>of one being available for the Amiga??
>I somehow doubt it myself, but you'd never know....
>
Your suspicions are correct, as far as I know. There's no Amiga compiler.

Mike

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Re: ADA compiler for the Amiga?

[Travers Naran]

mfeldman@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:

>In article <naran.695437025@fraser.sfu.ca> naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran)
 writes:
>>skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
>>
>>"cheap"? Oh yes, we all can go right out and buy $1200 compilers. :-) Not eve
n
>>IBM users can afford that. Those compilers are ususally sold to corporations
>>and organizations that use them. And the Amiga is supposedly on a no-bid stat
us
>>with SDI researchers so I'm sure there is a definite market for ADA compilers
.

>Whoa! A little perspective here. I think your info is outdated. True, there
>are no Amiga compilers, but academic pricing for PC compilers is ~$100.
>See Rich Pattis' recent post giving a survey of academic prices.

Sorry, but I missed it. But that is _VERY_ good news to hear! :-)
The reason being that Amiga software prices tend to be a lot cheaper than the I
BM
prices so I might be able to afford an Ada compiler. I got a hold of the origin
al
'tutorial' manual that was a prelude to the standards document (A thick sucker)
. The
mere specifications of the language and the constructs got me extremely excited
.
Inherited generic objects! Operator/Function overloading! The list goes on!! :-
)

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Re: ADA compiler for the Amiga?

[Richard Pattis]

I have had student who bough PC or Mac emulators for Amigas, and then run
PC/Mac Ada compilers. Of course there is a big performance hit, but at least
you can do it.

Rich Pattis

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