Amiga UX and Ada

[Randell Jesup]

In article <743 at caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave at cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes:
>Well, developing an Ada compiler may not be as easy as you make out.  I have
>heard that calling a compiler an "Ada compiler" requires that you pass a
>DoD validation suite.  They don't want a buch of Ada "clones", subsets and
>dialects floating around and obscuring the language.

	There's at least one company that has considered it (rbrukhart on
BIX, I forget the company name).  They were considering doing it after
they finished their Sun port.  Now that the UX is out, they may well actually
do it.

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