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From: sampson@cod.NOSC.MIL (Charles H. Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Flame on Verdix, Any other good Unix compilers???
Keywords: ada compiler
Message-ID: <2052@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 9 Aug 90 20:45:02 GMT
References: <1990Aug9.191734.11633@sctc.com>
Reply-To: sampson@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Charles H. Sampson)
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In article <1990Aug9.191734.11633@sctc.com> endrizzi@sctc.com (Michael Endrizzi ) writes:
>
>                                                           ... Are
>there any other compilers out there who's databases don't go south
>on a sneeze. That implement generics in a fashion so that they compile.
>That has a runtime system without endless loops. That has library 
>management tools that don't core dump and spit out Diana trees.

     I've been very impressed with the IBM-PC version of the Alsys compiler.
I've never used a Unix version but, knowing the way they keep all incarna-
tions of the compiler in step, I would expect it to be equally solid.

                            Charlie Sampson