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From: RC <rc1@clanchy.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: ada and robots
Date: 1997/06/04
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In <33930245.12A1@sprintmail.com> by "John G. Volan"
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>Dale Stanbrough wrote:
>> 
>> John Cook writes:
>> 
>> "small systems a student can afford"
>>         The Meridian Ada compiler, which comes for free with a book, is rather
>>         cheap, and targets any of the 8086 family (which are cheap, no?).
>>         It is Ada83 however. So I think you agree with you.
>
>Come now, don't tell me you haven't heard of GNAT?  It runs on pretty
>near everything (UNIX, DOS, Wintel, even Mac).  And you can download it
>for free.  (Well, on a Mac you have to spend $99 to get Machten, a port
>of BSD Unix that runs as a Mac app, but then you get GNAT for free. And
>it does let you write standalone Mac apps in Ada.)

Isn't this written in C?  Seems a bit defeatist.

RC1