Re: Ada 95

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

John said

<<Follow the links to the download from  ftp://ftp.nyu.edu
or its several mirrors.  Look for the version of GNAT ( =
*N*ew York University *G*nu *A*da *T*ranslator) for your
machine and OS.  This is one of the Gnu compilers, utilities,
etc., is free to use, and the source code is available.
But its covered by the Free Software Foundation's famous
'copy left' (as opposed to copyright), and one can't use it
for profit without further arrangements; further if you use
the source code to create something else, that something
else becomes covered by the same copy left.  It is a truly
first class compiler, and the WNT/W95 version has an
excellent IDE contributed by a user.>>

A couple of corrections. First of all, GNAT stands for nothing at this
stage, the acronym above is out of date, NYU no longer has any connection
whatever with GNAT, and we found that the "Translator" part confused
people, so the above acronym is hereby disclaimed permanently.

Second, AdaGIDE was created by Martin Carlisle with the support of
the Air Force Academy, where it is used for teaching Ada in their
courses using GNAT. ACT is working closely with Martin, and ACT
fully supports this product, it is not in the contributed software
category (which for us implies no support of any kind). The distribution
of GNAT is now integrated with the distribution of AdaGIDE>

Note that there are several other good IDE's that work with GNAT,
including GRASP, and of course EMACS with Ada mode.