Re: Newbie: Best Ada Compiler for MS Windows ?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

"D De Villiers" <ddevilliers@lando.co.za> wrote in message
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> I'm only interested in Ada and other languages (ALGOL, Modula-2, PL/I etc)
> as a hobby ! :) I'm using QBASIC and also BCX
> (http://www.users.qwest.net/~sdiggins/bcx.htm).
>
If that's the case then get Gnat, AdaGIDE, gdb and GtkAda and you should be
*more* than satisfied. There may be better development environments
available, but not free of charge. Also, you'd be up against the Law of
Diminishing Returns, IMHO. This setup would get you - oh, say 80%..90% of
what other environments might give you at a pretty steep jump in price & the
only cost to you is the download and hassle of getting it all together &
running for yourself. (Getting other environments to run correctly may in
some cases be even harder - and you paid for the privilege! :-)

MDC
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