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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9923b1c3be80099b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic) Date: 1996/10/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188550707 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <53gikd$1nr@felix.seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: > Pure and simple, they wanted nothing whatsoever to do with anything > under the GPL. > > In my opinion, AdaMagic (or indeed AppletMagic, which is what started > this thread) would be a good candidate for a Mac port (whether free- > standing or as a CW plug-in). At least the front end exists. I had the same thought. It not only exists, it appears to be a very clever piece of work (especially vis-a-vis retargetting various backends), and rather more impressive than the GNAT frontend (no small feat IMO). > This brings us full circle - Intermetrics apparently did not find > that an interesting idea, even though it was originally part of the > Academic Ada contract. And that's just fine. What would seem like the more sensible road here would be to put together a Thomson style deal (where ObjectAda uses the AdaMagic frontend, but Thomson BE, IDE, etc). This has produced one of the (maybe _the_) most impressive Ada offering to date. Question is, who is the Thomson equivalent for the Mac in such a scenario??? /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com