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From: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Any ADA compilers available?
Message-ID: <816@cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 5 Feb 90 02:18:14 GMT
References: <1367@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
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In article <1367@crash.cts.com> kvitek@pro-party.cts.com (Keith Vitek) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from allen@grebyn.com
>
>I believe the GNU project has been working on an ada compiler... may see about
>porting it if nothing else... but it is BIG... forgot the exact size of the
>compressed file size that I saw... somewhere around a meg...

This should be interesting.  I'll have to see if I can dig up a copy of the
GNU Manifesto.  I'm not sure how well the requirement for getting DoD validation
for the compiler would sit with the GNU project.  Since the language name Ada
is trademarked, you must get DoD validation or you can't call it Ada.  

On the comment that the compiler would be big, no doubt about it.  Ada is a big
language.  As a reference point, the IntegrAda compiler for MS-DOS machines
takes up about 2 megabytes of disk space and requires 640K of memory to run.

Jeff Schweiger

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