Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site aplvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!aplvax!mes From: mes@aplvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.ada Subject: Summary (incomplete) of Ada Compilers Message-ID: <518@aplvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 08:36:13 EST Article-I.D.: aplvax.518 Posted: Wed Feb 22 08:36:13 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Feb-84 04:43:19 EST Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD Lines: 38 I'm not an expert on what's currently on the market, but I'll tell you what I know (or think I know). Rumors about future products abound but the ones that are actually living somewhere in the bowls of a computer are as follows: Telesoft Ada - Runs under Unix, generates (or will soon) code for VAX, 68000. Current version is a very reasonable subset ( but no task types, or generics). Rumor is that a new version is about to be validated. York Ada - Runs under Unix on a VAX. Seems to be rather fast compared to many others. My info. about this one is limited. NYU Ada-Ed - A horrendously slow but validated compiler. It's not really that bad a tool if all you want to do is do syntax and semantic checking on programs, bbut if you want to actually run them, better bring a good book. Intel iAPX-432 - This compiler is fairly fast comparatively, but eh development environment is quite cumbersome, and requires an iAPX-432. Western Digital - This compiler is validated, but from what I understand is incapable of executing a program larger than a few hundred lines. ROLM Ada - This is the only validated compiler that seems anywhere near ready for serious use (if validation is required), but still has a few practical bugs in it (e.g. there is a limit of 32 on the number of tasks that can be built into one program. Happy Hunting, Mark Schmid Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab