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: fdb77,9923b1c3be80099b X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,9923b1c3be80099b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: New version of AppletMagic (was Re: Ada to byte-code compiler ...) Date: 1996/10/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 187147957 references: <324BF60E.4DEF@gsfc.nasa.gov> <533bki$d5n@felix.seas.gwu.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: Estormza Software mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <533bki$d5n@felix.seas.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) wrote: >>Intermetrics' AppletMagic release 1.6 is now available at >>http://www.inmet.com/javadir/download/ to replace the recently >>expired 1.5. This release expires October 31. I apologize for >>the delay between the expiration of the last version and this >>release. > >Please let Vince know if you think Intermetrics ought to be keeping >the _Mac_ version of this compiler up to date with the rest. Yes, there is a market for any and all Ada-related products for the Mac! Remember that historically Mac programming was done in Pascal; learning Ada would be just a baby step for those programmers. Compiler vendors: why not tap that market? If you're not conviced: I just took a seminar at Carnegie Mellon. In the classrooms where they teach CS there were row and rows of computers...all Macs! I am told Carnegie Mellon is the best school in the country for learning CS, and they chose Macs. You the Ada compiler vendors have chosen the best language, so why the best computer, too? Symantec, Metrowerks: how about an Ada compiler for the Mac? Apple: how about helping port GCC/GNAT to MPW? (If there's anyone out there with info about an MPW port, or about how to do such a port, or is doing it and wants some help, please contact me.) Perhaps a better name for the Java compiler would be AppleMagic? -matt -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant mheaney@ni.net (818) 985-1271