g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University) (04/11/91)
We are seriously considering working on a contract or in a grant to
produce Ada compilers for the Amiga under one or both of SYS V v.4.0 or Amiga
Dos. We have heard a lot of encouragement, but it is very difficult to define
a current market place except possibly the Department of Defense.
I sincerely would like your opinions on the effort of producing a
validated Ada compiler (or compilers) for the Amiga. Keep in mind that if your
answers are Amiga Dos or SYS V specific, then state that fact. Also, neither
my university nor I are seeking a profit on this work; we hope to work under
contract through a vendor that will see to the validation and market
the final product(s).
If you'd like a Q&A format, try this.
1. Would the existance of an Ada compiler for the Amiga
"_significantly_" make this computer more marketable?
(In Your Humble Opinion)
2. Although I have no idea what the price for the software would
evenually be, would you seriously consider purchasing it?
OR
3. Under what conditions would you seriously consider purchasing it?
4. Most Amiga programmers like C or Modula-2. Ada is a fixed standard
but can have machine-dependent packaged routines. What sort of
special routines exist in your favorite Amiga compiler that you
think ought to be included in any new compiler for the machine.
5. (Back to Marketing!) Do you know of anyone who has been either
turned down on a Department of Defense project bid or has not
bid on a DoD project because they did not have access to an
Ada compiler on an Amiga.
George
(This is being posted to several Amiga newsgroups.)
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In article <828.28033d1b@vger.nsu.edu> g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University) writes: > > We are seriously considering working on a contract or in a grant to >produce Ada compilers for the Amiga under one or both of SYS V v.4.0 or Amiga >Dos. Did you already talk to Oxxi? They are also working on such a beast as far as I know. Perhaps one could throw these efforts together. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) (04/13/91)
In article <1101@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: >In article <828.28033d1b@vger.nsu.edu> g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University) writes: >> >> We are seriously considering working on a contract or in a grant to >>produce Ada compilers for the Amiga under one or both of SYS V v.4.0 or Amiga >>Dos. > >Did you already talk to Oxxi? They are also working on such a beast as far >as I know. Perhaps one could throw these efforts together. > >-- >Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... >Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk I've seen mention of the Oxxi effort before, but other than someone saying that they saw "AmigaAda" on a piece of Oxxi letterhead, have seen no indication that such a product is actually in development. Oxxi does not market Ada compilers for any other computers, so it would appear that this is a new field for them - the Ada validation process is a step in compiler development somewhat different from other language compilers, and IMHO unless an Ada compiler passes validation, there is not much use in marketing it. Jeff Schweiger -- ******************************************************************************* Jeff Schweiger Standard Disclaimer CompuServe: 74236,1645 Internet (Milnet): schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil *******************************************************************************