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From: cpmurphy@vax1.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ADA on Amiga
Message-ID: <6848.26ed24a4@vax1.tcd.ie>
Date: 11 Sep 90 17:53:40 GMT
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Organization: Computer Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin
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In article <1990Sep9.173108.16455@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
> davidm@sugar.hackercorp.com (David Martin) writes:
>>ALL:
>>  A friend tells me that ADA is being released for the
>>Commodore Amiga by Oxxi. Has anyone heard the details
>>about it yet? Or about their new program editor? M2
>>compiler also?
> 
> I bought my Modula-2 compiler through OXXI - stay away from them.
> 
> Ada for the Amiga sounds like a dream come true, but it OXXI is
> involved, nightmare is more likely to be the result.

 Ada for the Amiga sounds like a nightmare come true. It's a big ugly language.
The compiler we used here eats up disk-space and is s.l.o.w.  With a language
like that it's not surprising. I can't see how it will be much better on an
Amiga.
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