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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR AN ADA COMPILER
Date: 1996/10/22
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In article <dewar.845939710@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> tmoran said
> 
> "  Do you mean the physical computers have too little RAM to run the
> compiler that came with the book, or what?  There are great differences
> in hardware requirements of different vendor's Ada compilers."
> 
> No Ada compiler comes with the book, that may change in the future, but
> certainly the version in my students hands is paper only! Furthermore,
> the version that comes with the book is far from being a universal
> platform compiler (I am talking about future versions of the book!)
> so it may not just be a matter of too little RAM, for example the
> students may be running on Alpha's!

That future compiler should certainly be written in Ada,
and be able to emit Java bytecode,
and be fed to itself emitting such bytecode,
with the result promoted as a universal platform Ada compiler :-)

Larry Kilgallen