Re: Ada for the Mac

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

Neil O'Brien says

"You sort of answered your own statement, we never upgraded because it was
originally a product too few customers wanted. A perception (valid or not)
is that the mac is not a serious development platform for embedded systems
(and markets where Ada / Ada95 is generally strong), whilst that
perception continues I doubt if any vendor is willing to swallow the
development costs in the hope a market would be able to pay back these
development costs and support future upgrades.
"

Neil may speak for Tompson, but he should not speak for "any vendor".

Ada Core Technologies will be fully supporting GNAT on the Mac Power PC
platform, using MachTen as the development environment (rather than
MPW as had been used by Mac Ada compilers in the past -- Machten provides
a familiar Unix environment). Applications can be generated to either
run under Machten, which is fully integrated with System 7, or under
System 7 directly.

Like other GNAT compilers, and unlike other available Ada 95 technology,
the GNAT compiler for the Mac is a full language compiler including support
for all special needs annexes, and all the familiar GNAT tools are also
available.

I certainly can't speak for Tompson's customer base, but we already have
serious commercial interest in support for this port.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies