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to: John Howard
from: Stijn Wolters
date: 1995-02-24 17:26:02
subject: Programming in OS/2 3.0

Hello John,

On 20 Feb 95, John Howard wrote to Tony Albrich

 JH>  -=> Quoting Tony Albrich to All on 13 Feb 95  01:05 <=-

 TA> I'm currently programming in pascal very little and would rather
 TA> change to OS/2 programming language, what is the best programming
 TA> language for OS/2 and how can i get it :).

 JH> Try Ada95.  It is the FIRST object-oriented language to
 JH> become an official
 JH> international standard.  ISO/IEC 8652; ANSI/ISO 8652:1995;
 JH> FIPS-119

Well, Borland C++ for OS/2 seems also pretty good, at the moment I use GCC
2.5.8 as OS/2 programming-language and Turbo-C++ 3.00 for DOS as DOS
programming-language.

 JH> To my knowledge, no commercial Ada95 compilers are yet
 JH> available for OS/2.
 JH> However, GNAT version 2.03 source code is available for
 JH> free!  There are
 JH> v2.00 binaries for OS/2, WinNT, DOS 386+, and Sun OS.  A
 JH> Presentation Manager
 JH> binding is freely available called pm_v15a.zip at
 JH> cs.nyu.edu:/pub/gnat site.

Is the PM-lib also available for GCC?

CU,
Stijn

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