Re: Ada95 compilers for the Macintosh

[xanthian@qualcomm.com (Kent Paul Dolan)]

In article <dewar.829236825@schonberg>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

> As has been announced here before, GNAT compilers for both the 68K and
> PPC Mac, running under Machten, are in the works, and beta versions of
> these wlil be available very shortly (alpha testing is already in
> progress). Full details of this project will be announced within the
> next week or two.

Are these self standing with their own Mac runtime libraries, or will this
still require that a C compiler for the Mac be purchased before any
interesting work can be done?

[And granted the Mac OS is the pits (no flames please, I'm typing at one,
it crashes multiple times a day running standard commercial software), how
small a population of users are you expecting to select for MacGNAT by
requiring also that a piggyback OS be in place?  I know I wouldn't
personally consider it worth the trouble, compared to a GNAT or other
Ada95 compiler running directly under the MacOS and including needed
runtime libraries to program to the Mac user interface, which I would
instantly download/purchase and use (even if the Mac OS _is_ dreck), just
to get some productive use out of this boat-anchor and the space it is
consuming on my desk at work.]

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