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: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic) Date: 1996/10/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188869708 references: <53d992INNnp@maz4.sma.ch> <53dnlp$bq7@news.syspac.com> <1996Oct8.190225.1@eisner> <53gikd$1nr@felix.seas.gwu.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: Estormza Software mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >"They are in the commercial software business, so again, I can't blame them >for distancing themselves from the GPL. Commercial shops and the Free >Software Foundation can happily coexist, not unlike commercial radio and, >say, NPR. Paying for software isn't a moral issue. >" >Nor is paying for software or not paying for software what the FSF and >the idea of free software is about. As Richard Stallman has gone to pains >to point out on many occasions, the free in free software is about free >availability of the sources, and freedom to modify and distribute, it is >not about paying no money. Freeware where you can get the binary for $0 >but not the sources is just as objectionable as expensive proprietary >software from this point of view, price is not the issue! Yes, I agree. Thank you for correcting me. >If you want a Mac version of Ada 95 with a nice command line free visual >environment, then by far the most practical route is to take either the >existing GNAT port, or the Intermetrics Java version, make as few changes >as possible to the core compiler technology, and work on embedding one of >these existing compilers in a nice environment. That approach could succeed >at reasonable cost (perhaps 1-2 person years of effort). A ray of hope! I guess I've got a lot of homework to do, eh? matt -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant mheaney@ni.net (818) 985-1271