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- From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: ada developement tools??
- Message-ID: <63210@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 16:27:31 GMT
- References: <SHAWN.93Jan7134542@litsun.epfl.ch>
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- In article <SHAWN.93Jan7134542@litsun.epfl.ch> shawn@litsun.epfl.ch writes:
- > Does anyone know if there are any Ada developement tools for the Next
- > machine?? what about cross compilers??
-
- Yes, Meridian sells their OpenAda compiler and environment for the NeXT.
- They can be reached in the US at (714) 727-0700 - California time.
-
- Its fast, easy to use and pretty stable. I've found a few minor compiler
- bugs, but have easily worked around them. Its a basic Unix port, no
- NeXTSTEP GUI stuff or natural connection to NeXT IB - but they are talking about it.
- Let them know if thats important to you. My biggest dissapointment is that
- they use their own debugger which doesnt always work, instead of gdb.
- Most Ada compiler vendors do this to support concurrent tasks, but NeXT gdb
- already knows about threads. But the compiler is so fast, debugging with tracers
- is not nearly as painful as it sounds.
-
- It interfaces with C easily using the standard Ada pragma interface.
- I imagine you could interface with Objective C the same way by calling the
- objective C runtime directly.
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