Re: Building an Ada compiler

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Tuck says

"Not everyone agrees with you, but as you say, they will have to put
their money or their time where there mouth is.  Even using MPW
on the Mac is distasteful to many people."

Actually I think for most people MPW (or its successor) are much MORE
distasteful than using MachTen, since at least the Unix command language
is familiar to a lot of programmers. Very few programmers (including
Mac System-7 users) are familiar with the MPW command language.

I don't see any real point in a GNAT for MPW effort, but a GNAT that
worked directly under System-7 with a visual IDE would be definitely
of interest, though that's a much bigger effort.

One thing that is important, and is true of both MPW and Machten, is that
it is important to be able to run under System-7, and co-exist with
System-7 applications. That's a nice feature of MachTen, which at least
for us makes it much more interesting than MkLinux.