ian@loral.UUCP (Ian Kaplan) (12/14/84)
I am thinking of doing a book on advanced programming techniques (operating system kernal sorts of things). Such a book would be used by upper division college students and others wishing to learn advanced software techniques. I plan to supply the source for all the software discussed in the book on a disk to be supplied with the book. For such a project I need a systems level implementation langauge. I do not want to use C, for reasons which should be clear to anyone interested in Ada. Pascal is not a possibility for because standard Pascal would not serve the purpose and mutant Pascal is not standard. My other alternatives are Modula-2 and Ada. My question for you out in net land is: does there exist an Ada implementation which will run on the IBM PC, PC/XT or Fat MacIntosh. I do not expect fully validated MIL-STD Ada, but I need an implementation which will allow me to write real systems software in real Ada. The compiler and associated packages should not cost more than $500 and should not compile much slower than 50 lines/min. Modula-2 meets the above criteria, but I thought that I would look into Ada before making a final decision. If there is sufficient response I will sumarize for the net. Thanks in advance, Ian Kaplan Loral Data Flow Group Loral Instrumentation USENET: ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!ian ARPA: sdcc6!loral!ian@UCSD US Mail: 8401 Aero Dr. San Diego, CA 92123