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Subject: Re: Kickstarter for beginning work on a new open-source Compiler
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On Friday, 21 March 2014 05:23:35 UTC, J-P. Rosen  wrote:
> Le 21/03/2014 03:13, Lucretia a =E9crit :
>=20
> >  Hopefully though, the ASIS WG will come out with the proper specs soon=
.
>=20
> That's the problem: there is no ASIS WG any more. The ARG tried to take
> over, but it's resources are limited, and better used to the maintenance
> of the language.

Well that's a shame, could we possibly have:

1) http://www.sigada.org/wg/asiswg/ updated to reflect ASIS WG is dead?
2) Have any private documents made public so that we or others who want to =
try to implement it, can do? That is, if there are any that are still priva=
te.
=20
> > And FYI, another reason why we need another competing implementation :D
> As far as ASIS is concerned, the Gela project was promising. The idea

Gela was part of Tendra which was abandoned by the UK government (or whoeve=
r created it) ages ago.

> was to have a compiler targeting ASIS, and then make code generation
> from ASIS. It was sufficiently advanced that AdaControl compiled with it
> (except for Gnat extensions for Ada 2005/2012), and even passed a good
> part of its test suite.
>=20
> Unfortunately, the author turned to other occupations. It would be nice
> to have volunteers taking over this project.

Maybe.

Luke.