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: 103376,9923b1c3be80099b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada on the Mac (was: AppletMagic stuff) Date: 1996/10/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188035088 references: <324BF60E.4DEF@gsfc.nasa.gov> <533bki$d5n@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <5395s7$bu8@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <1996Oct7.100737.1@eisner> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: i"Symantec has expressed a policy of welcoming other compilers to their IDE, freely publishing the interface specifications. They are being beaten up about their Pascal non-support so they seem an unlikely candidate to do a compiler, but adapting to their IDE might be possible for someone else. Symantec may have a reputation below that of Metrowerks in the Macintosh developer community, but for many their IDE ranks far above MPW (which is alleged to be still quite command-line oriented)." MPSW is not "quite comamnd line-oriented", it is a command interpretor, analogous to a unix shell, but with its own highly peculiar syntax. By the way, I find it strange that Larry should be so concerned with 68K based Macs, for educational use it is nice to be able to support such machines at least a little bit, but I can't see any serious interest at a commercial level. Certainly the commercial interest we have seen in the Mac port so far is entirely PPC based.