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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Xref: utzoo comp.unix.amiga:124 comp.lang.ada:4776 Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!jet From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend") Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Amiga UX and Ada Message-ID: <1991Jan29.051947.27478@lavaca.uh.edu> Date: 29 Jan 91 05:19:47 GMT References: <549.27a32b94@vger.nsu.edu> <743@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <16098@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Sender: nntppost@lavaca.uh.edu (NNTP Posting Service) Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics List-Id: I've added comp.lang.ada, please keep this in mind when you followup. In article <16098@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> djohnson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes: >Of course, I know some people who would be perfectly willing to use >inexpensive unvalidated Ada compilers, or even not-quite-Ada, since >then development could be done on workstations, etc. Roll your own. Ada is close enough to Pascal (really!) that it's pretty straightforward to pirate across a good Pascal compiler. In my undergraduate compilers class, we had to generate assembly for an ada-subset language (missing all the thread-type stuff and difficult-to-code user niceties, etc). In the space of a semester, I was able to manage function calls, exceptions (or whatever ada calls them) and a couple of other things. An experienced compiler person should need only 6-12 months, I'd *guess*. I actually have considered writing a ada-subset (keep in mind that "Ada" is legally protected to the point that you can't sell an "Ada compiler") compiler, but I can't justify the time expenditure. Ada-flames to /dev/null, I really don't care to argue about Ada good or bad. It's just another language. -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2120 "It is the cunning of form to veil itself continually in the evidence of content. It is the cunning of the code to veil itself and to produce itself in the obviousness of value." -- Baudrillard