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: 103376,5d819a12831be771 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Building an Ada compiler Date: 1996/06/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 163656159 references: <4r4idi$egp@eri1.erinet.com> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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.