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: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public From: jstevens@samoyed.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov (John Stevens) Subject: Re: ADA and Pascal SUCK, C,C++, and Java are the only languages you need!! Date: 1997/11/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 288993016 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456b9f3.0@news.eznet.net> <3456e71b.3833189@news.mindspring.com> <3459AC95.1D75@dynamite.com.au> <3468B532.3ACC@le.ac.uk> Organization: USDA/NRCS Information Technology Center Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 11:42:42 -0800, Dr E. Buxbaum wrote: >John Stevens wrote: >> >If you have an Ada compiler >> >> That *IF*, being the gotcha. >> Has anybody ever successfully used Ada on a Linux box? > >I have not worked with it personally, but there is the Gnu Ada compiler >(Gnat). So in theory you should be able to run Ada on any system which >is supported by Gnu software, including Linux. But as suggested, I've never gotten it to work under Linux. If anybody has, is the result "true" Ada (does the compiler compile any legal Ada program) and if so, to what standard does it comply? John S.