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From: mikb@stcns3.stc.oz (Mike Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga Ada
Keywords: Ada, APSE
Message-ID: <662@stcns3.stc.oz>
Date: 1 Aug 88 03:13:02 GMT
References: <423@afit-ab.arpa> <36821@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikb@stcns3.stc.oz (Mike Benson)
Organization: Alcatel-STC Australia, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA
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In article <36821@linus.UUCP> eachus@mbunix (Eachus) writes:
>In article <423@afit-ab.arpa> wbralick@icc.UUCP (William A. Bralick Jr.) writes:
>>Is anybody out there working on producing a validated Ada compiler
>>and/or APSE?  The Amiga 2000 could really be an impressive Computer
>>Aided Software Engineering (CASE) workstation ...
>>
>>Will
>
>     I have talked to two Ada compiler vendors about porting their Ada
>compilers to the  Amiga. RRSoftware and  Irvine Compiler  Corporation.
>THe more interesting case  is ICC.   As  of   January, they had  their
>compiler running on the  Amiga (with a  few  bugs to  be  found) using
>Lattice C as a bootstrap tool.  Simply having an Ada compiler gets you
>nowhere, you need lots  of additional pieces  of support, both  on the
>Ada side and the Amiga side.

Is it at a stage where it is validatable?  A couple of years ago I had the
misfortune to do an Ada course at Uni.  I liked the language, but the ICC
compiler we had was unvalidated, incomplete, and infuriatingly buggy.  People
get the wrong idea about Ada when the compiler don't work....

>     The surprising  thing is  that ICC doesn't  think that there is a
>viable market  for Ada  on the Amiga,  even though as of last December
>everyone who worked there had one at home...  Also, ICC has  more work

Can't say I'm surprised.  Most Amiga programmers/developers/hackers don't
believe in the software development philosophy embodied by Ada, and consider her
to be a camel like COBOL (avoid at all costs).  I'd probably use an Ada compiler
for Amy, if one were available, subject to two conditions:
i)  I could get it here in Oz for a reasonable price
ii) It is a validated compiler, AND IT ALL WORKS!
Be nice if it compiled direct to assembler, rather than C.  I can't commit time
to the port, though.
>
>
>					Robert I. Eachus

					Mike Benson

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