From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Pascal Obry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANN: Kickstarter for beginning work on a new open-source Compiler Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:15:12 +0100 Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net Message-ID: <1395483312.27343.112.camel@pascal.home.net> References: <5151491a-14c3-4138-bcb5-f29108aeefb9@googlegroups.com> <9d599925-25ae-40c2-a26d-aa9fb7316649@googlegroups.com> <5B1Xu.64246$086.61049@fx18.iad> <87txaqd28v.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Reply-To: pascal@obry.net NNTP-Posting-Host: T7rgpeGodFMjnp5sE2/nnQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.5-2+b3 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:18918 Date: 2014-03-22T11:15:12+01:00 List-Id: Le samedi 22 mars 2014 =C3=A0 10:14 +0100, Ludovic Brenta a =C3=A9crit := =20 > Really? I always thought it was bootstrapped from Ada/Ed? So what's > the relationship between Ada/Ed and GNAT, apart from both being > developed at New York University? None, I think Ada/Ed has been a kind of test-bed and GNAT has borrowed the good idea from Ada/Ed and avoided the mistakes. And yes it was bootstrapped from Alsys compiler. I was there at the NYU when the first bootstrap was conducted in 1992 :) I still remember this magic moment! --=20 Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) The best way to travel is by means of imagination http://v2p.fr.eu.org http://www.obry.net gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B