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- Announcing Ada for RISC OS Release 2
- ====================================
-
- Ada/Ed is a translator-interpreter for Ada. It is intended as a teaching
- tool, and does not have the capacity, performance, or robustness of
- commercial Ada compilers. Ada/Ed was developed at New York University, as
- part of a long-range project in language definition and software
- prototyping. Ada/Ed is now available *free* for machines running RISC OS and
- is covered by the GNU GPL.
-
- Ada/Ed also allows interworking with C by linking the interpreter against
- your new C code. I first built the system on an ARM 2 A3000 with 4MB and was
- able to compile and run Ada code quite happily. I haven't checked whether
- the system will work on 1MB or 2MB systems, though it should work without
- too much trouble. I now have a Risc PC and it works superbly on that.
-
- Ada code is converted into a virtual machine language which is intepreted
- and runs at a reasonable speed. There is limited debugger support as
- provided by NYU, certainly no interactive window based debugger. Basically,
- the debugger provides a trace of the lines being interpreted.
-
- Ada/Ed is available from HENSA (ftp micros.hensa.ac.uk) in the directory
- /micros/arch/riscos/c/c052. The archive is 852K and includes the executables
- for Ada/Ed and some sample Ada code.
-
- Note, all email regarding Ada/Ed for RISC OS should be sent to me at
- adaed@arcangel.demon.co.uk, rather than my standard email address or NYU.
- Alternatively, I can be contacted as user 943 on Arcade.
-
- New for this release
- ====================
-
- This version is based upon version 1.11.2 from NYU. Various bugs have been
- fixed since version 1.11.0a which was used for the first port to RISC OS.
-
- There is also support for compiling and linking Ada programs by using the
- DDE frontend tools and throwback of error messages is now provided.
-
- regards,
- Pete
- -- E-Mail : adaed@arcangel.demon.co.uk
-