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- From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
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- Subject: Re: A good PD ada compiler, please...
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 19:18:45 GMT
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- In article <orange.726475298@cunews> orange@alfred.carleton.ca (Paul Vallee) writes:
- > Does anyone know where to find a compiler for ADA that will run on the next?
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- Meridian sells a NeXT Ada compiler (714) 727-0700
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- If you are looking for a free one, you can wait for the Gnu Ada9X* (GNAT) compiler
- which should be done late this year. They have first class experienced people on the
- project and the GNU back end - so it should be a good compiler. Or you can try to
- port the new Ada-Ed, which is (I think) some kind of P-code (like) based interpreter.
- It runs on PCs and Amigas and perhaps others - look through the Ada FAQ and other files
- on ajpo.sei.cmu.edu for more info. This new Ada-Ed is rumoured to be quite
- usable, and should not be confused with the very slow SETL based Ada-Ed interpreter
- used in the early 80's to experiment with the language design.
- You could alse post to comp.lang.ada.
-
- *Ada9X is the new version of Ada which improves (among other things) support
- for object oriented programming, concurrency and hierarchical library units.
- Features to support these areas exist in Ada83, but turned out to be limited in
- some ways with experience. Ada9X generalizes existing features for the most part,
- rather than adding new ones.
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