Meridian Ada Compiler for the Mac

[saharbaugh%roo.dnet@WINNIE.BERKELEY.EDU]

On 15 Jan 91 Mike Feldman writes:
-This is good news! I'm glad they finally took the plunge. This is an MPW
-system (MPW comes bundled, I believe). 
Yes, it did
-I'd rather see a real Mac application
-instead of an MPW tool, but something is better than nothing. 
Hmm, what is a "real Mac application".  I quickly learned to like
the MPW.  To me (a systems engineer) it is like having an easy-to-use
interface to a Unix command line system.  I launch MPW then give
textual commands in a desktop window.  I can enter comments, cut and
paste, scroll back and forth and repeat any command with a click and
an "enter", etc.  If I want to know how to format a command line I pull down
Meridian's menu, make selections by clicking etc. and 
Meridian builds the command
line piece-by-piece for me and explains what the command or option will do.
My personal preference is to then cut the command line from Meridian's
menu window to the MPW window.  I'm not too demented(yet) to not
remember what the command and options do, so I use the "real-MAC"-like
feature as help and work out of the MPW window.  
Also I use multifinder and bounce around windows and tools but
for large Ada source files I must turn multifinder off and just use MPW 
because I only have 8MB of RAM(I can't believe I said only 8MB)
-The compiler
-is kinda slow, at least on my Mac+. It'll perform better on a 68020 Mac.
Yes, its much much faster on a IIci (25MHZ 68030) than on Mac+
-Another breakthrough. A decent Mac compiler for $149. is a welcome event.
So my message is to give MPW a try, you might like it.

sam harbaugh  saharbaugh%ROO.DNET@WINNIE.FIT.EDU       
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