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On 01/24/2018 02:19 AM, MichaelD_4321@aol.com wrote:
> 
> How different are the ADA 95 compilers on Linux versus Windows? Which is better.

Is that the American Dental Association or the Australian Desert Anteaters? Ada 
is a woman's name, not an acronym.

Ada-95 compilers can be very different between vendors, even on the same 
platform. For example, GNAT uses a source-file-name based approach to finding 
the source for compilation units on all platforms it supports, while Janu/Ada 
(Windows only) uses a compilation-library approach. The former is a bit harder 
to use if you don't want to use the default naming rules, but a bit easier to 
invoke if you do. The former is more flexible about file names and allows 
multiple compilation units in a single file, but may require an extra step 
before you can compile things.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"You couldn't catch clap in a brothel, silly English K...niggets."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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