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From: jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Cheap/Free Ada (was: Ada9x Transition)
Message-ID: <14412@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 91 17:10:53 GMT
References: <2916@sparko.gwu.edu> <jls.669955177@rutabaga> <2926@sparko.gwu.edu>
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In article <2926@sparko.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu () writes:

>AJPO: get something out there _quickly_ and don't be afraid to let us have
>premature stuff to play with. We're smart guys and we can work around the
>deficiencies. And for Heaven's sake, let us in the universities have
>the source code, RIGHT FROM THE START, so we can "add value." 

My fantasy, inspired by a well-placed Ada-head who shall remain unnamed, is
an Ada front end for the GNU compilers. This would open up about a zillion
targets (basically anything that has a GNU C compiler).

I'd love to see AJPO drop a large parcel of unmarked bills on GNU's
doorstep, ask for no project plan, no design reviews, no 2167A doc; just
a working Ada compiler "sometime" that is freely available in source form.

[Flames that GNU C is written in C to /dev/null, please.]

>Thanks for starting a debate on this, Jim. This is gonna be fun.

Yeah!

-- Jerry Callen
   jcallen@encore.com