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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada wanted for win7 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:50:24 -0700 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:50:01 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="39e879381993545c8771646b3d75db6a"; logging-data="785"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Y7tnELtE4Ia0xaOtFCnzinFg0zKeYVfc=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:A6Ro5GJurMnTN+cjqQZN0UZY624= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32279 Date: 2016-11-10T10:50:24-07:00 List-Id: On 11/10/2016 05:50 AM, jack wrote: > > Is there a free ada environment I can download to use on a win7-64 system? > If not I'd welcome suggestions for a low cost version. > Purpose is to learn/and evaluate ADA basics Would that be the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Australian Dental Association, or some other acronym? FYI, Ada, a woman's name, is correctly capitalized as in your subject line. Not addressed by others is the version of Ada you'd like to learn/evaluate. The most recent version, ISO/IEC 8652:2012, is only supported by one compiler, GNAT. Free versions of GNAT are available. GNAT also supports earlier versions of Ada. If you want a language supported by multiple compilers you'll need to use an earlier version of Ada. The next most recent version, ISO/IEC 8652:2007, is supported by multiple vendors, but GNAT is the only free compiler that supports it. The version of Ada before ISO/IEC 8652:2007 is ISO/IEC 8652:1995 (Ada 95), which is supported by multiple vendors. There is a free version of ObjectAda for Ada 95 that can be found on line. It has limitations as to the size of programs that it can compile, but they should not be an issue for your purposes. RR Software provides a low-cost compiler and may provide a free evaluation compiler for Ada 95. -- Jeff Carter "Have you gone berserk? Can't you see that that man is a ni?" Blazing Saddles 38