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Subject: Re: Studying and Maintaining GNAT,
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Ah, I get it, sorry Luke, bit dense here today.....

I can't start an Ada compiler but I have a suggestion if someone wants to.

Look at GnuCOBOL.

It's very plain-jane, run of the mill in a lot of ways. It uses bison/flex for the compiler. It generates C code. It does not have enough comments but it is a good compiler.

I know everybody hates C here but I believe generated C can be safe. The runtime could still be written in Ada with just the entry points being C friendly.