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From: jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Cheap/Free Ada (was: Ada9x Transition)
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Date: 29 Mar 91 01:47:13 GMT
References: <2916@sparko.gwu.edu> <jls.669955177@rutabaga> <2926@sparko.gwu.edu> <14412@encore.Encore.COM> <jls.670100311@rutabaga>
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In article <jls.670100311@rutabaga> jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
> [regarding my fantasy of a GNU Ada front end]
>Actually, that's a pretty clever idea. I'm not too jazzed about the
>debugging issues (ever try to debug C++ that has been "mangled" [Stroustrup's
>term, not mine!] into C? Not pretty), but other than that it could
>work pretty well.

Arg, no, you misunderstood. I do NOT want an Ada-to-C translator, I want
a real live "front end" (first pass). The GNU C++ compiler is NOT a
preprocessor.

Of course, the chance of my fantasy actually coming true is roughly 
equal to the chance that any decent Ada 9X implementations will show up
before the year 2000. (ducks...)

-- Jerry Callen
   jcallen@encore.com