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On 2014-06-18 13:34, Natasha Kerensikova wrote:

>> You may not have to start from scratch. Pick-up the Gela-ASIS project
>> (currently sleeping) and fix what's missing. That will give you a
>> stand-alone implementation of ASIS, that could be used to generate code
>> from.
> 
> I wasn't aware of that. Suddenly the idea of a second free Ada compiler
> seems within human grasp \o/
> 
> For some reason I'm much more frightened by parsing Ada text than by
> code generation. I know the latter is probably not easier than the
> former (I'm aware of LLVM vs nested functions), but who said fright is
> rational?

I'll mention that I have a pet project to build an Ada compiler that
targets LLVM (although the precise target is subject to change) here

	https://github.com/pchapin/augusta

I don't anticipate this going anywhere quickly; it's mostly just
intended to be a fun hobby project. My implementation language is Scala.

Peter