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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-10 05:00:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4028D5C8.50604@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:00:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.2.230 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1076418005 209.165.2.230 (Tue, 10 Feb 2004 05:00:05 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 05:00:05 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5393 Date: 2004-02-10T13:00:05+00:00 List-Id: christoph.grein@eurocopter.com wrote: >> >>GNAT is a front end of GNU C... > > > That's not true. GCC means Gnu Compiler Collection and Gnat directly compiles to > intermediate format as does C, and not to C. > O.K. but this could be semantics. "Front End" in compiler-speak can mean the portion of the compiler that parses the source language into some intermediate form. I didn't get the impression that anyone was implying that Gnat translated Ada into C then invoked the gcc compiler on it. If that was the claim - its probably a troll. ("Hey, let's go see if we can get those Ada guys screaming about how Gnat doesn't translate into C again!" :-) MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================