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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6192a34d0c9ffe5b X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!jacob-sparre.dk!ada-dk.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Tutor Web Site Shutting Down Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 16:12:11 -0500 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <7f53de8e-2400-4c87-a818-0b389e117c42@e21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <4d9eea12$0$302$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <2aeab5d1-fa6d-47de-ab53-9a8e6ab5f27a@h9g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <3a6f1fc2-3ae0-42d9-b483-d16cf7ab1566@x8g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <991499fb-bc24-4d7e-baf6-a9c0e16333e6@k22g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1304629934 8781 69.95.181.76 (5 May 2011 21:12:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 21:12:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19174 Date: 2011-05-05T16:12:11-05:00 List-Id: "Rugxulo" wrote in message news:e9ff6294-9947-495e-8301-86065e730d05@v8g2000yqb.googlegroups.com... > > DJGPP is still barely creaking along, even with GCC 4.5.2 (including > GNAT), FreeDOS too (2040 coming soon!), but they have very very few > testers. I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but you could always > run FreeDOS under JPC (Java) in a browser. Someone correct me, but are > there any better DOS Ada compilers that are still updated??? (Would be > surprised.) Better, dunno. Janus/Ada 95 (32-bit only) would be updated if anyone wanted it, but no one has asked. (It's still in our pricelists.) But a better question is why would you want to use a new compiler? Is there anything inportant that you can do in DOS that you can't do in a Windows console program or a standard Linux program? The main reason for compiling a DOS program would be so that you don't have to change anything about, including the DOS specific stuff. In that case, you're best off sticking with the same compiler that it was built with, why make more work by introducing a new set of bugs. (We occassionally get requests for absolutely ancient compiler versions, for someone that needs to make a tiny change in some old program. Not long ago, I needed to dig up a 1985 version of Janus/Ada for someone. The cool thing was that I tried running it to make sure I'd copied it uncorrupted [an issue because it copied from 25 year old floppies], and it worked fine on a modern Windows XP machine. I knew there was a reason that we were really careful about following the OS rules back in the day...) Randy.