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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada compiler in BASIC?
Date: 2000/04/16
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In article <8dc7c2$j7f$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> In article <8db57c$g94$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   e_erpelding@hotmail.com wrote:
>> I am trying to find the Byte magazine
>> article about an Ada compiler written
>> in BASIC. The article included the source
>> code even! Does anyone know the issue
>> it appeared in? Or, even better, is it on
>> the net somewhere?
> 
> 
> It would not be too hard to write an Ada 83
> compiler where the maximum line length (an
> implementation dependent choice) was 2 :-)

Are you proposing an implementation that accepted abbreviations
for some of the longer common Ada words, like "end" ?