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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bdd927ef8bb6088d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) Subject: Re: Announcing GNAT version 3.12p for Linux and Sparc Solaris Date: 1999/10/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 539672601 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 References: <7uia7h$kn4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7upmel$ttm@drn.newsguy.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 940696466 nnrp-11:15590 NO-IDENT skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 Organization: None User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.4 (UNIX) Reply-To: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 00:58:10 GMT, Kent Paul Dolan wrote: >it took me less than 80 characters of typing to bring up gnat 3.11(p?) >from the /usr/ports/lang/gnat directory. Color me _extremely_ impressed. modern unixen are getting so much easier to use than Windows for anything beyond even *very* basic tasks... (I still haven't managed to succesfuly install Star Office mind[1]), software installation and removal is miles ahead these days. >I don't have any Linux experience yet with which to make a comparision, rpm -F gnat*.rpm [for rpm based distros] [some equally short one line command for debian] >PC-Clone platform, and a usable gnat development platform (probably >better lots than that, but my experience is limited to one non-trivial >Ada 95 program developed there, so far). Practically all the platforms are good for gnat IME, although some are better than others (unix vs windows), but YMMV. Emacs is good. - Aidan [1] This is all because of the glibc maintainers mind... -- "I say we just bury him and eat dessert" http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/