Re: Apple II ADA?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <4mfirfF5vhf8U1@individual.net>,
RichardK  <enterprise64@btconnect.com> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>> In article <4me2stF5p0nmU2@individual.net>,
>> RichardK  <enterprise64@btconnect.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there an ADA compiler/editor suite for the Apple II (gs, ideally)?
>> 
>> There was Janus Ada for CP/M - you could run it on an Apple II with some
>> CP/M card.
>> 
>>> I'm interested in "some time" dabbling with programming languages again, 
>>> considering C and whatever packages.
>>>
>>> Richard
>> 
>> If youre interested in dabbling with languages rather than dabbling
>> with the Apple II, it would be better if you got some Linux computer.
>> There you could run e.g. GNAT (Gnu Ada), a more full implementation
>> than Janus Ada.
> 
> If I was going to do that, I'd run stuff on my Mac.
 
If you're running Mac OS-X, you could probably get GNAT running there.
On Mac OS-9 and earlier, you'd face some problems though...
 
> It's a matter of poking some languages I've never used, and if I can, 
> doing so on the computer I like to use for programming - in that I 
> really like the IIe keyboard :D
> 
> Richard
 
Can't you run a terminal program on your IIgs and hook it up to your
Mac?  Then you can use a more powerful computer AND type on the IIgs
keyboard ..... the best of both worlds, right?
 
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