eberard@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Edward Berard) (09/07/88)
I happen to enjoy using Apple Macintoshes as software engineering workstations. I would also like to do everything I can to encourage Ada compiler vendors to consider the Macintosh as a viable platform for an Ada compiler. Currently, Meridian Software is the only Ada compiler vendor which has an Ada compiler available under the original Macintosh OS. Alsys and TeleSoft have Ada compilers which run on Macintosh IIs under Apple's version of U*IX (A/UX). Recently, I have been contacted by a number of different Ada compiler vendors who were considering developing Ada compilers for the Macintosh under the original OS. They wanted answers to the following questions: 1. Who is interested in Ada compilers which run on Macintoshes under the original Macintosh OS? 2. What criteria are the most important in the possible selection of such compilers? 3. If such compilers were available, how many would you, or your organization, be likely to purchase? If you have answers to these questions, please send them to me and I will post a summary on the net. (I already have a number of responses from other newsgroups which I will also include in the summary.) -- Ed Berard (301) 695-6960
peirce@claris.UUCP (Michael Peirce) (09/13/88)
In article <581@afit-ab.arpa> wbralick@icc.UUCP (William A. Bralick Jr.) writes: >In article <365@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> eberard@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Edward Berard) writes: >>I happen to enjoy using Apple Macintoshes as software engineering >>workstations. I would also like to do everything I can to encourage >>Ada compiler vendors to consider the Macintosh as a viable platform >>for an Ada compiler. Currently, Meridian Software is the only Ada ... >> >I thought that John Sculley didn't want to sell Mac's to the DoD. Come on. Just because Ada has some roots in the DoD doesn't mean that that's all it's good for! My experience with Ada was in a factory automation environment that had nothing to do with DoD. Ada was a good language for doing seriously designed systems in. I'd love to see Ada on the Macintosh since that's the machine I now work on (before was using DEC's Vax/VMS Ada). The Mac could use some serious software engineering oriented compilers and tools! -- michael