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- From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
- Subject: Re: Ada compiler wanted!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.222711.2187@seas.gwu.edu>
- Keywords: FSF Ada Apple
- Sender: news@seas.gwu.edu
- Organization: George Washington University
- References: <92343.111916DGB4@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Dec9.084239.25699@sei.cmu.edu> <1992Dec12.201015.11165@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:27:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.201015.11165@nwnexus.WA.COM> emagnuso@halcyon.com (Erik Magnuson) writes:
- >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?
- >
- Interesting question. I'm not sure whether NYU per se will do the Mac
- port, but there will undoubtedly be a port, if for no other reason than
- there are so many Macs in education. There is a gcc for the Mac.
-
- Stallman must be in a bit of a quandary: the FSF side of him wants to
- see dispersion of free software as widely as possible; the LPF side of
- him wants to boycott Apple.
-
- Mike Feldman
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