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: 103376,39c299e1a336f754 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada for the Mac Date: 1996/09/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 179719774 references: <32237B8F.6DC7@xmission.com> <00001a73+000033a9@msn.com> <322ED21A.678@thomsoft.com> <01bb9e89.5ee38da0$fc899dc0@fielding.east.alsys.com> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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