Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!spies!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga UX and Ada Message-ID: <1991Jan29.154422.22422@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 29 Jan 91 15:44:22 GMT References: <549.27a32b94@vger.nsu.edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 37 g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu ((George C. Harrison) Norfolk State University) writes: > We are SERIOUSLY considering a lab of AMIGA3000UX's but would like to > also have an Ada compiler to extend some of our faculty and student > research. gcc and cc may be fine for some folks, but some of our work > is strictly Ada-based. > Does anyone know of any development efforts in Ada compilers for this > computer? > Since the operating system is essentially generic, it would "seem" > that developing an Ada compiler would be relatively simple IF there is > enough interest. > Truth, rumors, outrageous rumors, etc. will be fine. > (No, Ada flames, please. I can "duke" it out for Ada with the best of > them!) Considering that you're looking at a vanilla sysVr4 operating system, _any_ 68000 family targeted Ada compiler that runs under sysVr4 should be immediately portable _in_ _binary_ to the Amiga, as long as it doesn't get cute with its original machine's architecture, which would be really unnecessary stupidity for a compiler! Considering the scarsity of sysVr4 implementations out of beta test right now, you might have to wait a few months, but I wouldn't let lack of a future Ada compiler act as a stumbling block; the A3000UX is pretty visible as a target platform, and there are already lots of 68000 family targeted and hosted Ada compilers written and validated; porting one to a Unix system should be a snap. Kent, the man from xanth. -- Oh, yeah; Hi George! Just noticed whom I was answering.