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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!emagnuso
- From: emagnuso@halcyon.com (Erik Magnuson)
- Subject: Re: Ada compiler wanted!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.201015.11165@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Keywords: FSF Ada Apple
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
- References: <92343.111916DGB4@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Dec9.084239.25699@sei.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 20:10:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec9.084239.25699@sei.cmu.edu> ae@sei.cmu.edu (Arthur Evans) writes:
- >DGB4@psuvm.psu.edu asks
- > Does a NON-MPW Ada compiler exist for the Macintosh? ...
- >
- [existing Mac compiler stuff deleted]
- >The future looks better, though. Robert Dewar, who is part of the GNAT
- >Project at NYU that is implementing Ada under GNU, told me that there
- >will be a Mac port on that project. When? Perhaps the middle of 1993?
- >That product, like all GNU products, will cost no more than media
- >copying and probably be available free by FTP.
- >
- >At Evans
-
- Is this really likely given the FSF antipathy to Apple? Do the GNAT
- implementors feel bound by RMS request to boycott Apple and not
- support GNU software on Apple?
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- --
- Erik
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