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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a6b:a112:: with SMTP id k18-v6mr10006310ioe.138.1529577880929; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:44:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:aca:d60f:: with SMTP id n15-v6mr1184309oig.6.1529577880726; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder4.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!d7-v6no2007077itj.0!news-out.google.com!z3-v6ni2699iti.0!nntp.google.com!d7-v6no2007074itj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:44:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7cb22c58-3009-47f0-8fe7-62f3cd61785d@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.39.218.10; posting-account=3cDqWgoAAAAZXc8D3pDqwa77IryJ2nnY NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.39.218.10 References: <584564c2-9f64-4965-b045-535cdaf899c0@googlegroups.com> <7cb22c58-3009-47f0-8fe7-62f3cd61785d@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <52b14af1-ee0a-40af-871a-beeced6bce1c@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Why are Ada compilers difficult to write ? From: Marius Amado-Alves Injection-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:44:40 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53222 Date: 2018-06-21T03:44:40-07:00 List-Id: The stated opposites to Ada were C and Pascal, not C++. I suspect a C++ compiler is as hard to make as an Ada one. Or even harder, because of the much higher grade of kludginess.