[Info-vax] DEC ADA

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2022-07-28, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 7/28/2022 4:08 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>>> Does VSI have DEC Ada for the AXP platform? I couldn't find it on the
>>> LPS media set on the FTP server. I have fond memories of wrirting ADA
>>> programs, and I've got quite a few TLB files that I will transfer onto
>>> my AXP as soon as I figure out TCP/iP configuration.
>>
>> I am not sure about DEC Ada.
>>
>
>DEC Ada was available for Alpha.

It was, but it was only Ada 83.  However, it was a great Ada 83 compiler and
it provided far better debugging information than most of the competition.
The last Alpha machines that I ran mostly continued to exist because people
would want to develop Ada on them rather than on faster machines with far 
shorter compile times, because of the error reporting.

>The contract with AdaCore was to provide Ada 95 on Alpha instead of DEC
>extending DEC Ada to support Ada 95.

Yes.  Some people found this a step down but when the contract says you have
to deliver Ada 95 source, then you have to deliver it in Ada 95.
--scott
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