From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: Studying and Maintaining GNAT, Is There Any Interest in a New Group?
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 23:05:50 +0100
Date: 2018-08-25T23:05:50+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <640061608.556927492.124379.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 158855c7-2729-4dc7-95c1-df93a01afe8f@googlegroups.com
<patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
> Ah, I get it, sorry Luke, bit dense here today.....
>
> I can't start an Ada compiler but I have a suggestion if someone wants to.
>
> Look at GnuCOBOL.
>
> It's very plain-jane, run of the mill in a lot of ways. It uses
> bison/flex for the compiler. It generates C code. It does not have enough
> comments but it is a good compiler.
A new compiler needs a radical new design.
>
> I know everybody hates C here but I believe generated C can be safe. The
> runtime could still be written in Ada with just the entry points being C friendly.
>
Ada can import and export C fine.
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2018-08-25 12:27 Studying and Maintaining GNAT, Is There Any Interest in a New Group? patrick
2018-08-25 13:56 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-25 16:00 ` patrick
2018-08-25 16:16 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-25 17:42 ` patrick
2018-08-25 19:25 ` Simon Wright
2018-08-25 20:24 ` patrick
2018-08-25 21:48 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-25 21:53 ` patrick
2018-08-25 22:05 ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
2018-08-26 19:54 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-26 20:14 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-26 22:52 ` Lucretia
2018-08-27 2:38 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-27 14:46 ` Lucretia
2018-08-27 15:42 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-27 21:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-28 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-08-29 0:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-29 8:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-08-29 21:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-30 7:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-08-30 23:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-31 8:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-08-31 22:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-09-02 8:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-09-04 22:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-29 3:02 ` Paul Rubin
2018-08-29 6:18 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-29 19:00 ` Paul Rubin
2018-08-30 5:54 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-30 6:29 ` Paul Rubin
2018-08-27 21:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-27 9:37 ` Simon Wright
2018-08-27 16:54 ` Bill Findlay
2018-08-27 17:42 ` Shark8
2018-08-31 21:23 ` Robert A Duff
2018-08-31 22:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-09-01 19:42 ` Robert A Duff
2018-09-02 8:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-09-02 10:11 ` AdaMagica
2018-09-02 12:10 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-09-02 14:30 ` AdaMagica
2018-09-04 22:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-09-01 7:41 ` Simon Wright
2018-09-01 17:27 ` Bill Findlay
2018-08-27 17:35 ` Shark8
2018-08-25 21:17 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-25 23:16 ` Paul Rubin
2018-08-26 8:03 ` Rene
2018-08-26 10:09 ` Simon Wright
2018-08-25 16:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-08-25 17:38 ` patrick
2018-08-25 17:39 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-25 17:45 ` patrick
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