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	<LI><A HREF="#Heading1">- 31 -</A>

	<UL>

		<LI><A HREF="#Heading2">Other Compilers</A>

		<UL>

			<LI><A HREF="#Heading3">Ada</A>

			<LI><A HREF="#Heading4">FORTRAN</A>

			<LI><A HREF="#Heading5">Digital Signal Processing</A>

			<LI><A HREF="#Heading6">Modula-3</A>

			<LI><A HREF="#Heading7">OGI</A>

			<LI><A HREF="#Heading8">Eiffel</A>

			<LI><A HREF="#Heading9">COBOL</A>

			<LI><A HREF="#Heading10">LISP</A>

			<LI><A HREF="#Heading11">Scheme</A>

			<LI><A HREF="#Heading12">REXX</A>

			<LI><A HREF="#Heading13">Summary</A>

		</UL>

	</UL>

</UL>



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<H2 ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="Heading1<FONT COLOR="#000077">- 31 -</FONT></H2>

<H2 ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="Heading2<FONT COLOR="#000077">Other Compilers</FONT></H2>

<P><I>by Kamran Husain</I></P>

<P>IN THIS CHAPTER</P>



<UL>

	<LI>Ada 

	<P>

	<LI>FORTRAN 

	<P>

	<LI>Digital Signal Processing 

	<P>

	<LI>Modula-3 

	<P>

	<LI>OGI 

	<P>

	<LI>Eiffel 

	<P>

	<LI>COBOL 

	<P>

	<LI>LISP 

	<P>

	<LI>Scheme 

	<P>

	<LI>REXX  

</UL>



<P><BR>

This chapter gives you a brief introduction to some languages other than those that

have been assigned whole chapters in this book. You will learn details about the

following languages and how to get packages for them:



<UL>

	<LI>Ada

	<P>

	<LI>FORTRAN

	<P>

	<LI>Digital Signal Processing

	<P>

	<LI>Modula-3

	<P>

	<LI>OGI

	<P>

	<LI>Eiffel

	<P>

	<LI>COBOL

	<P>

	<LI>LISP

	<P>

	<LI>Scheme

	<P>

	<LI>REXX

</UL>



<P>All the packages here have accompanying documentation and &quot;how-to-use&quot;

instructions for them.</P>

<P>The list of programming languages covered here is not complete. As Linux becomes

more and more acceptable in the programming community, you will see more languages

being ported to Linux.

<H3 ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="Heading3<FONT COLOR="#000077">Ada</FONT></H3>

<P>The Ada programming language was named after Ms. Ada Lovelace, a member of the

original Ada software development team. Ada is the choice of many real-time system

software developers and has been enhanced significantly for this purpose. Needless

to say, some greatly enthusiastic individuals have ported this language over to Linux.

The Ada package is referred to as the GNAT (for GNu Ada Translator). The authors

therefore appropriately belong to the GNAT project at New York University.</P>

<P>The latest update at the time of this writing was in September 1994. The Ada83

and Ada90 standards of the Ada language are covered in this release. The Ada for

Linux package comes in the following files:



<UL>

	<LI><TT>gcc-drv-2.4.5.tar.gz</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>gnat-1.83-bin-disk1.tar.gz</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>gnat-1.83-bin-disk2.tar.gz</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>gnat-2.0-linux-1.tar.gz</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>gnat-2.0-linux-2.tar.gz</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>gnat-2.0-linux-bin.tgz</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>gnat-2.0-linux-lib.tgz</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>gnat-2.0-linux.lsm</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>gnat-1.83.lsm</TT>

</UL>



<P>For more information, you can contact the support folks via e-mail at <TT>[e-mail]</TT>.

The FTP site at <TT>tsx-11.mit.edu</TT> has the latest information and release of

this software in the directory <TT>/pub/linux/packages/Ada</TT>.</P>

<P>To compile the source files, you need <TT>gcc</TT> 2.6.0 or higher. The compiler

can be found in the <TT>gnat-2.0.tar</TT> file. Altogether, this package chews up

about 5MB of your hard disk space.

<H3 ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="Heading4<FONT COLOR="#000077">FORTRAN</FONT></H3>

<P>The FORTRAN programming language is also ported to Linux. Only versions up to

FORTRAN 77 have been ported over. There are only commercial ports of FORTRAN 90 as

of this publication. The package in the <TT>tsx-11.mit.edu</TT> archives under the

<TT>/pub/linux/packages/fortran</TT> directory contains the following files:



<UL>

	<LI><TT>ftnchek-2.7.lsm</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>ftnchek-2.7.tgz</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>libf2c-0.9.lsm</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>libf2c-0.9.tar.gz</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>mpfun-1.0.lsm</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>mpfun-1.0.tar.gz</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>toolpack-1.2.lsm</TT>

	<P>

	<LI><TT>toolpack-1.2.tar.gz</TT>

</UL>



<P>For a more up-to-date description of the files, check the <TT>INDEX</TT> file

in the same directory as the above files. The <TT>libf2c-0.9.tar.gz </TT>file contains

the functions for converting FORTRAN code to C. Actually, the program <TT>f2c</TT>

does a pretty decent job on all my class assignments at the university. The output

is not idiot-proof, but it does the major portion of the job of translation.</P>

<P>The <TT>toolpack</TT> files are tools for FORTRAN programmers. Functions include

printing aids for clean output listings and some sort of lint checker. Tools in this

package include those for portability testing and dynamic programming analysis. All