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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UX and Ada
Message-ID: <18227@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 28 Jan 91 23:11:53 GMT
References: <549.27a32b94@vger.nsu.edu> <743@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <743@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes:
>Well, developing an Ada compiler may not be as easy as you make out.  I have
>heard that calling a compiler an "Ada compiler" requires that you pass a
>DoD validation suite.  They don't want a buch of Ada "clones", subsets and
>dialects floating around and obscuring the language.

	There's at least one company that has considered it (rbrukhart on
BIX, I forget the company name).  They were considering doing it after
they finished their Sun port.  Now that the UX is out, they may well actually
do it.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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The compiler runs
Like a swift-flowing river
I wait in silence.  (From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)