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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd6dd,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gidfd6dd,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "John G. Volan" Subject: Re: ada and robots Date: 1997/06/04 Message-ID: <3395D6FD.7312@sprintmail.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 246145163 References: <338CDA96.53EA@halcyon.com> <338F5D7D.6C03@tiac.net> <338F9D05.5EB3@bix.com> <5mqpj3$bc5$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <33930245.12A1@sprintmail.com> Reply-To: johnvolan@sprintmail.com Newsgroups: comp.robotics.misc,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: RC wrote: > > In <33930245.12A1@sprintmail.com> by "John G. Volan" > > >Come now, don't tell me you haven't heard of GNAT? [snip] > > Isn't this written in C? Seems a bit defeatist. Before you go perpetuating myths, get your facts straight. GNAT is written in Ada95, and compiles itself. It is one of several language front-end modules (including C, C++, Modula3, and Fortran) that are plugged into GCC's multi-language optimizing back-end code-generation system, which was indeed written in C. Sounds to me like an excellent example of mixed-language programming and reuse. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet.Usenet.Put_Signature (Name => "John G. Volan", Employer => "Texas Instruments Advanced C3I Systems, San Jose, CA", Work_Email => "johnv@ti.com", Home_Email => "johnvolan@sprintmail.com", Slogan => "Ada95: World's *FIRST* International-Standard OOPL", Disclaimer => "My employer never defined these opinions, so using " & "them would be totally erroneous...or is that just " & "nondeterministic behavior now? :-) "); ------------------------------------------------------------------------