From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2a989442e177405d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-26 22:07:46 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Free Software using AdaEd (Announcement) Date: 27 Sep 1994 00:51:10 -0400 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3688bu$6fq@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <35isnu$qce@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <19940922.224250.87@arcangel.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1994-09-27T00:51:10-04:00 List-Id: In article <19940922.224250.87@arcangel.demon.co.uk>, Peter Burwood wrote: >I recently ported Ada/Ed 1.11.0a to the Acorn range of computers(*) >running RISC OS and I mailed adaed@cs.nyu.edu to register the port. All I >received back from two emails was what looked like an automated >acknowledgement. This led me to the, perhaps erroneous, conclusion that >Ada/Ed was no longer supported or developed. >I would love to hear that Ada/Ed is still maintained since I have some bugs >to report which I would like to have fixed. I wish I had good news for you, but I don't, really. NYU is really tied up with GNAT, and the funding we had at GW was to build the IDE's that resulted in GW-Ada/Ed, DOS and Mac versions. We should think of Ada/Ed in its current incarnations as a test of the conjecture that freely distributable Ada compilers can make a big difference in the acceptance of the language. The steady e-mail I get, from across the US and around the world, tells me that we were on target in doing and distributing these "products". [snip] >Finally, is there a newer address for Ada/Ed communication, or do I need to >wait for GAS to support Acorn machines (soon I hope) and then use GNAT ? Well, we are the nearest thing to a support site. If people report bug _fixes_ to us, we will make an effort to apply them to the various versions. We prefer to distribute our stuff via PAL, as it's central, mirrored, and much more tuned for ftp than our boxes here at GW. NYU is unlikely to give Ada/Ed any attention; they have (properly, IMHO) moved on to GNAT and haven't got funds or time for Ada/Ed. Ada/Ed, and especially the "packaged" DOS and Mac versions that combine NYU's good work with our own, makes for a really nice educational package. But in the end, it's a "toy" that runs out of steam pretty fast. We will grab the Ada/Ed "added value" described in the original post and play with it over here. Perhaps we can be talked into trying to harmonize some of the ports, but we are doing it as a hobby at this point, without funding, so we're obviously not able to push it to the top of the to-do list. IMHO, our best overall policy (as a community) is to consider the free-software concept proved, and move on to building nice tools for GNAT. Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER. "Pork is all that stuff the government gives the other guys." ------------------------------------------------------------------------