On Fri, 2026-06-19 at 08:53 -0400, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > Well, maybe my memory is getting flawed (it was 25 years ago and I am > 75 now) but we started using GNAT right from the very beginning at > the > University I worked at. One of our professors was a friend of Dewar. > We jumped on the Ada bandwagon immediately replacing Pascal as our > CS1 and CS2 language with Ada. (For a number of years I got irate > emails > from previous students bitching about the fact that they spent so > much > time on Ada and went out into a workplace that didn't use it.) I > distinctly remember working with C output. Unless there was another > Ada compiler at the time. I will have to try and go back thru my > massive repository and check it out again.
In addition to GNAT there are a number of excellent commercial compilers. I don't know whether any are free, or have evaluation or student licenses. The Ada standard committees (ARG and WG9) are active.
