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Frank Ranner <franner@pcug.org.au> writes:
>On 5 Mar 1996, Troy Edward Robinette wrote:
>> pbrosnan@scorpion.cowan.edu.au writes:
>> 
>> >I'm doing some programming in Ada for a Uni course and was wondering whether Ada is supported under Linux. 
>>   Same here.
>> 
>> >Does anyone know about getting hold of an Ada package for Linux
>> 
>>      Yes ... you need Gnat. Its a GNU program (ie free!).
>> 
>In Australia you can get it from csc.canberra.edu.au pub/ise/gnat
>The latest version is there. You will need an ELF system, and gcc 2.7.2 
>as well.

Unfortunately GNAT is crap though.  It's an interpreter not a compiler
and it doesn't support tasks (or other "difficult" stuff).
There are no good free ada compilers (and the expensive ones aren't
too crash hot either!).

Dave.
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