From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Delphi & Ada; Ada to C++
Date: 1998/02/24
Date: 1998-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cvaic$drs$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 98022314453684@psavax.pwfl.com
Marin David Condic writes:
" Where did this particular piece of Urban Lore get started? I seem
to recall many years ago that somebody had an Ada83 compiler that
generated C as "high level assembler" - Irvine seems to suggest
itself, but I wouldn't swear to it.
It seems lots of folks "know" this piece of lore and it must have
had some basis in fact or legend which has served to keep it
going."
I've seen many students make this mistake, and it seems to stem from...
gcc is a compiler that compiles C programs.
i use gcc to compile Ada programs
ergo the compile translates Ada to C, and then compiles it.
Another reason for this confusion was the original name of Gnat - the
GNu Ada Translator (an acronym which Robert Dewar has since disowned)
- people are used to using the word Translator and compiler to mean
very different things.
Dale
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-23 0:00 Delphi & Ada; Ada to C++ Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
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1998-02-13 0:00 Ada to C++ Translators David Kusuda
1998-02-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-16 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Delphi & Ada; Ada to C++ Nick Roberts
1998-02-19 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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