Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ADA on Amiga Message-ID: <1990Sep12.063547.25506@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 12 Sep 90 06:35:47 GMT References: <6547@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Sep9.173108.16455@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <6848.26ed24a4@vax1.tcd.ie> Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 48 cpmurphy@vax1.tcd.ie writes: >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. Well, Ada is a big, ugly, robust, highly maintainable, highly portable language, whose writers earn good pay and have good job security, at least in theory. So if you _had_ to develop code in it, say as a contractor working mostly on your own equipment for an organization where Ada was a requirement, wouldn't the Amiga be high on your list of platforms for the work? Especially since you could start the long slow compile in the background while doing something important in the foreground, like filling in the next module stub with real code, or playing NetHack? To the person in _that_ situation, the Amiga would become a true productivity tool for Ada. Heck, you could even write the docs for AmgiaTeX processing while you compiled the code, and preview your dvi output. Compared to some of the other environments available _for_ _developing_ _Ada_ _code_, I think "dream come true" is still a fair call. I'm not especially claiming that Ada would be the Amiga programming language of choice, that's another religious war entirely. (I was vastly amused to see in the C++ standards group recently: "C (which some people claim incorrectly to be a programming language)...", however. ;-) Kent, the man from xanth.