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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e20292f693f1408 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Stephen Leake Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM Date: 1997/09/12 Message-ID: <34196E8E.1790@gsfc.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 271955830 References: Reply-To: Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM All Right! > > > The final GNAT-to-Java system, to be implemented entirely in Ada 95, This sounds like you are NOT planning on adapting the backend of gcc to write JVM byte codes, but are instead implementing a new backend in Ada. This is cool! Will this backend be as data-driven as gcc? What I really want to know is; will I be able to adapt the new backend to my flight processor, and abandon gcc? gcc is great, but adapting it means writing K&R level C; I'd much rather be writing Ada95! -- - Stephe