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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: ACT announces availability of GNAT 3.14p
Date: 3 Feb 2002 07:13:32 -0600
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In article <3C5CEFCE.D41ABFFF@eliminatespam.notes.udayton.edu>, Leon Winslow <leon.winslow@eliminatespam.notes.udayton.edu> writes:

> Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
>> Ada Core Technologies (ACT) has made available at the NYU
>> site (ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat) GNAT 3.14p builds for the
>> following targets:
>>
>> MS Windows (NT/2K)
>> Sparc Solaris (2.5.1 through 2.8)
>> GNU Linux (Redhat 6.2)
>>
>> The above are the official platforms, but in practice the
>> NT version works reasonable well on Win 98 and Win ME and
>> other versions of GNU Linux including Debian GNU/Linux are
>> known to be compatible with this version of GNAT.
>>
>> These are the only public versions that ACT plans to build.


> I can understand the reason for limiting ACTs work to Windows NT, but
> this is also one of the  reason that Ada is "sliding into oblivion."
> The majority of the programming is being done on Windows platforms other
> than NT and 2K.  (MS has already announced dates for dropping all suport
> of these two platforms.).  A compiler that works "reasonably well" in
> W98, XP or Me is never going to be used on those platforms for any
> serious work.


For "serious work", ACT recommends that you pay money for their
GNAT Professional product.

But for comparison sake, for which Windows variants does Microsoft
give away their compilers for free ?