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: 103376,7741f8aef7268573 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada-compiler for Macintosh? Date: 1996/11/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194401553 references: <199610271435.a199@k2.maus.de> <1996Nov4.104556.1@eisner> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Larry says "If Intermetrics was just on the edge and had decided to go ahead with a Macintosh compiler there is no certainty they would have achieved the degree of IDE smoothness Macintosh afficianados have come to expect. Even Metrowerks has not been able to achieve the degree of integration displayed by Think Pascal." In fact there are many different constituencies here. So far the only interested customers we have in the Mac port are interested precisely BECAUSE it has a similar interface, and allows them to build System 7 compatible applications. I quite realize that there are those who want something else. So far our judgment is that there is an insufficiently large market to justify trying to satisfy the "give-us-an-integrated-mac-like-ide" desire. I think you could argue that the original intent of the academic contract was to generate a much more smoothly integrated version (that is certainly what Mike's bid on this contract had in mind), but anyway, given the contract modification that occurred, that is water under the bridge in any case. Right now, I very much doubt you will see any major new ada devlopment effort on the Mac, so the best bets are (a) to use the Intermetrics Java system (b) to develop shells around the Machten implementation that make it look more like what you want.