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: 103376,ca60939b0fee11b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: xanthian@qualcomm.com (Kent Paul Dolan) Subject: Re: Ada95 compilers for the Macintosh Date: 1996/04/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 146994877 references: <4uspee21xt.fsf@furrow.frc.ri.cmu.edu> <316CBFEF.7D35@lfwc.lockheed.com> organization: Birthright Party "The birthright of humankind is the stars." newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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.] -- Xanthian. | "..want the consequences of what you want.." | Kent, the man from xanth. | Neil A. Maxwell, LDS Apostle | Kent Paul Dolan ------------------------------------------------ xanthian@{well,qualcomm}.com Jobhunting? Check www.qualcomm.com!