From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: nobody in particular Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is there another ada compiler Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 15:18:36 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <67b6ddf7-0009-4c34-ba67-90219fa1057eo@googlegroups.com> <9b2d3201-5cb3-46b6-97c2-8d5fb2baae4fo@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 15:18:38 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9811dbbfe0184cc6d57f6e7fc0aa1cd2"; logging-data="6001"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+tAbf2orvrdX9M0/hcp+BC" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:A0iDqYXbqTdT0LcuMOvLqqRXehI= In-Reply-To: <9b2d3201-5cb3-46b6-97c2-8d5fb2baae4fo@googlegroups.com> Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:59647 List-Id: On 03/08/2020 13:51, Shark8 wrote: > RR Software has Janus/Ada. Honest company run by good guy Randy Brukhard, who is a long time participant on the newsgroup. Unfortunately, not available on the platform I wanted it for. Hobbyist-friendly. > PTC has ObjectAda and ApexAda. There was a recent announcement here in the newsgroup, unfortunately without any pricing. Pricing is also not found on the PTC website. In the past, Aonix did have a hobbyist compiler but I haven't seen it for years. > Green Hills has an Ada compiler. Huge money and the salesman I spoke with displayed significant disdain when I turned out to be an individual rather than a company. Did not disclose pricing. However, in speaking with another participant off-list, I was given some sense of the pricing. > DDC-I has a compiler. Not sure if anything past '83 is supported. But do check if you're interested. I believe JOVIAL is also available from DDC-I. > IBM used to have a compiler. (I'm not sure they do any more.) It was sold to a company in Washington, D.C. which I believe still sells the Ada 95 compiler. I don't believe they support any additional standards after 95. I'm sorry, I can't remember the name. I attempted to get a hobbyist distribution to run on the Hercules z/Architecture emulator (which also supports MVS, MVS/ESA, and OS/390) but was not successful. Appeared to be a reasonable guy and the product was well integrated in MVS/ESA but probably not generally useful to most people in this newsgroup. If it is, would be worth identifying the company and starting a dialog. Lastly, we should mention gcc-ada which was still out there for Linux and Solaris last I looked, and even for some unusual platforms like Solaris SPARC. The SPARC platform maintainer was very helpful and I got a copy at some point, I can't remember but I think around gcc5. There used to be gnat 3.15p (last non-GPL) release but it was cruelly excised from all servers and download sites when Adacore happened. We should note, GNAT / Adacore were created on the backs of American taxpayers via a grant to New York University. Unfortunately, the taxpayers got the shaft and a profitable business was born to continue the fun.