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From: matsl@nada.kth.se (Mats Luthman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: How common are Ada compilers?
Message-ID: <2350@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 20 Nov 89 15:06:44 GMT
Reply-To: matsl@nada.kth.se (Mats Luthman)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Is Ada a suitable implementation language if you are going to develop a
fairly large program that you want to run on many different systems?

Are there Ada compilers for all major operating systems (IBM systems, VMS,
all UNIX systems, MS-DOS and extended memory (4 Mbyte and more, maybe
generating 386 code), OS/2)? Is there a greater chance of finding a C++
compiler than an Ada compiler on a randomly chosen system?

Are the Ada compilers on UNIX good (fast, error free et.c.)? Which SUN
computers have Ada compilers? Do these compilers come with X Window
(and, on SUNs, Sunview) interfaces?



Mats Luthman