mk@suadb.UUCP (Magnus Karlson) (03/12/84)
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York's ADA compiler summary
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Thanks to those who answered, we are now going to order a
compiler and will try to use it on a small course later this
spring. If any interesting happen i will summarize to the net.
Here follows a short collection of the answers, (edited by me
though).
Mike Williams (mike@erix.UUCP) (enea!erix!mike)
The York Ada compiler is distributed to commercial institutions
outside the UK by SPL international. As far as I remember it
costs about 10 000 USD and the 1 000 USD per year in sweden.
I believe that it might be possible for you to get a cheaper
academic license if you talk directly to York.
Address:
University of York - Dept of Computer Science,
Heslington York
Y01 5DD UK
(tel 00944 / 904 59 861)
Contact Dr Ian Wand or Prof Ian Pyle.
We had a preliminary version on our machine (erix at L M
ERICSSON) but it was full of bugs.
Comment:
We did contact the University directly and it seems they have a
NONE commercial license for 150 GBP.
Per Hedeland
enea!erix!per or per@erix.UUCP
The address of the mother company for the commercial
distribution is:
SPL International
Research Center
The Charter
Abingdon
Oxon UK
OX14 3LZ
Tel (UK) 0235-24112
Telex 83164
We had release 0 of the UNIX version (the other one is for VMS)
on trial a while back. It was rather flakey, but the code it
eventually produced seemed all right. Release 1, which is
hopefully better, is now available. It is *very* expensive,
though, this not being the fault of the guys at York, but rather
because Maggie seems to think that selling software is one way
to get the British economy back on its feet...
Don Davis
JHU/APL
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This subset of ADA (without generics) is slow. I wrote a program
to print "Hello, world" which took several minutes to compile
and resulted in over 50K of object code.
University of Stockholm
Dept. of Information Processing & Computer Science
Magnus Karlson
S-106 91 STOCKHOLM
SWEDEN
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