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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,30352abc52760363 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dale Stanbrough Subject: Re: Delphi & Ada; Ada to C++ Date: 1998/02/24 Message-ID: <6cvaic$drs$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 328276555 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <98022314453684@psavax.pwfl.com> X-XXMessage-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Distribution: world Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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